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...your customers are putting rain checks in people's stockings." It's a tricky balance, and it affects the bottom line. Many e-tailers have abandoned all hope of profit in their race to win market share. "But if customer-acquisition costs are only part of the red ink," Sharma warns, "then your cost of doing business is too high or you're not charging enough, and you won't be able to survive." A lot of the reasons Amazon has done so well--bigger warehouses, superior customer service, low prices--have kept it deep in red ink. It will...
...order required, running off not just handbills and brief documents but a theoretically infinite number of individual pages. There were technical obstacles to overcome, including the discovery of an alloy that would melt at low temperatures, so that it could be poured into letter molds, and of an ink that would crisply transfer impressions from metal to paper. And what force would be employed to make these impressions? Gutenberg hit upon the idea of adapting a wine press for new uses...
eBay is also one of the Internet's greatest financial success stories. It has defied the 11th Commandment: Internet Start-Ups Shall Bleed Red Ink. It's made money from its first month of operation. After only four years, eBay is worth some $20 billion--more than Sears and J.C. Penney combined--and its stock price has surged 25-fold. The rewards for the key players have been lavish. Whitman, after less than two years at the company, controls shares worth about $1 billion. Skoll's net worth is more than $3 billion. Omidyar's 30% ownership adds...
...could it have failed? With a smugness that smothers the actors' energy and obliterates the historical reality. Welles is a pompous oaf, and Houseman his toady. The rich are scheming, the poor artists cliches of do-gooder striving. These are caricatures drawn so violently that one sees blotches of ink instead of quick, deft lines. Perhaps, in the long view, we are all idiots. But we don't need a 60-year perspective to see Robbins' attitude revealed in all its meanness of spirit. If he hated these people so, why did he waste his time and ours putting them...
...After the first quarter of last fiscal year, the hospitals realized that they were bleeding red ink, they approached Rudenstine and Fineberg and asked for help," Corlette said...