Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expected to test-launch a ballistic missile that could finger the very outer edges of America. Which isn't to say that anyone thinks Pyongyang will blast Anchorage anytime soon, but just testing that kind of missile--and then putting it up for sale on the international arms market--is enough to make huge swaths of the world very nervous. It's a perfect setup for high-priced extortion, and last week diplomats were struggling: Do we let the North Koreans launch, or can we buy them off? On the brink of collapse and with its people racked by starvation...
Going digital was a much rockier road in the U.S., mainly because the FCC chose to let competing technologies duke it out in the market. The result: Qualcomm, Ericsson and others squabbled over whose standard would "win." None did, so we're left with a hodgepodge of incompatible networks and a gaggle of abbreviations (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, IDEN) that are not only confusing but also confining, restricting us to a particular carrier's coverage area and delaying the roll-out of advanced services...
...unusual for the market to fall in love with a stock, seduce it and then abandon it. What is unusual is for this to happen faster than a college tryst. For TheStreet.com where I am the largest shareholder and a writer and director, the impact of the decline was more subtle than the fall was jolting. Right out of the box, investors gave us a big market cap--in essence, a club to beat up or buy up competitors. But then they took the club away before we could start swinging. We were looking brash and predator-like...
...nothing has fundamentally changed at TheStreet.com We are a real business, still young, that has to pound it out day to day. We even had some good news in a recently announced, better-than-expected quarter, although the market scalding sure does take away from the achievements we feel the company has made. Worse, a Chinese wall keeps me from consoling the journalists who are seeing their riches decrease...
Oddly, the sell-off could be a godsend in disguise. We need to see the dot.com door close, and close hard. We got our money from the market to grow and prosper, but we would prefer others not to have such good luck. The fewer dot.coms in our space, the merrier...