Re: UKNM: Mars - make it happen

[Nabil Shabka]

I must say that I agree that if results aren't delivered by a few high profile

companies, the rest of the Internet industry in the UK/Europe will most likely

suffer as a result.  Kind of a weird situation actually, the Uk Internet

industry at the mercy of a few companies such as boo.com, who don't even have a

website up and another company, Freeserve, who stumbled into becoming the

largest UK player.


My thinking, we better get our fingers out.  No more sitting around like we have

for the past few years. Time to can the late hours, take more holidays, enjoy

long weekends and float a few more Internet companies.


Seriously though, the key is to create more high profile Internet companies so

that if a couple crash and burn, the industry lives on.


Nabil


"Robert Hamilton (brandwidth)" wrote:


> Matt wrote:

>

> > hmmm... anyone from boo here??

> >

> > was chewing the fat with some people the other day about the possible

> > negative effects on the european internet VC boom-ting that's happening at

> > the moment if boo.com underdelivers on it's hype and investment...

>

> I agree, and have also wondered about this for a while. I recall the demise

> of WebMedia causing similar issues; in that it suddenly became a tad more

> difficult to get funding for agency start-ups.

>

> The problem is, to my mind, that if boo.com were to launch online alchemy a

> week on Thursday, we'd all say, "Oh, is that all it does?". I cannot think

> of

> anything they could do now to match up to the hype, and can't help feeling

> that they shouldn't have stated their launch funtionality quite so blatantly

> so long ago.


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