Notable Quotables: Dot-Com and Gone

Dot-Com and Gone

"When there's a ton of water, a lot of things float and look like boats. When
there's a ton of money, a lot of things float and look like companies." - David
Roux, co-founder of hi-tech buyout firm Silver Lake Partners.

"If it doesn't make cents, it doesn't make sense." - Fortune magazine, Oct
2000.

"The fundamental mistake the dot-coms made is they assumed that brand is
a thing in itself, separate from the products, and that it created value: 'Just
get me known, and all this other stuff will fall into place." - Regis McKenna, on
putting the marketing cart ahead of the horse.

"Most of that advertising is not value creation. It's aimed at investors, to
keep the market value up." - Regis McKenna.

On who will win the rush for the middle ground, the virtual companies seeking
physicality or the physical companies seeking virtualness: "Which do you think is
easier, learning e-business or learning to build a multi-billion dollar
company?" - Jerry Useem, Fortune magazine.

The Internet Is Here to Stay

Harvard professor Clayton Christensen who popularized the term "disruptive
technology" when describing the Internet, now refines his view, considering the
Interent not a disruptive technology per se, but "an infrastructure that can
enable disruptive business models."

"[The Internet] is going to change the world. Just not in the way some
companies wanted it to." - Phil Kaplan, creator of the notorious website
FuckedCompany.com.