| I’m in a taxi.
Bit of conversation. The driver asks me what I do. I say Internet. His eyes light
up. And I hear the dreaded words:
“I’ve got this great idea for a website”
Listen to me and listen good.
American business are preparing to write off over $590 billion
dollars wasted on failed online ventures. Marconi are reeling, bumping into
walls, after being socked by one of the biggest corporate losses in human history.
£21 billion wasted on telecoms ventures.
Over 65,000 people in technology have been laid off in
this country alone. Most of shares on NASDAQ you wouldn’t give your hamster
to shred into one of the cute little nests they make. Thousands of graduates who
studied web design etc during the Golden Age Of Information (1995-1999) are now
unemployed and unemployable. Employment agencies - those wankers who had the market
in a stranglehold - are finished. Good riddance but a lot of my friends - bright,
intelligent, hard-working - are now on the dole and some are even considering
spending the evenings down the docks. In wet suits. With the bum cut out. And
a sign around their neck.
A recession is hoving into view like a big black Zeppelin. Most
financial institutions have closed down the hatches, thrown their crews overboard
and are sitting it out in the hold.
It’s carnage. Armageddon.
The last thing they are going to do is bung £2 million
cash at your piss-poor website idea.
Yet this information is still yet to percolate into the
brains of the general public. Who are still spending gladly and dashing their
savings away on Mariah Carey’s latest film or a Harry Potter buttplug.
Still you get this:
“It a site where you can hum a tune and a link to the record
appears on Amazon”
No.
“It’s an online shop for lonely single men called AngryLoner.com”
No.
“…it will sell fruit, fruit-shaped things, books about
fruit…”
No. NO. NO!
WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN TO MAKE YOU REALISE IT’S OVER?
by DavidM
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