04-01-2007, 10:24 AM
Quote:f you missed the first internet wave, it may not be too late. Working with new business models and boosted by investors' growing appetites for dotcom startups, a second swell of online enterprises is emerging...
Another reason for the return of interest in the internet: affordability. "The cost to get into business and experiment is dramatically lower than it was in the first boom," says Jim Fowler, 41, CEO of Jigsaw Data Corp., a San Mateo, California, company founded in 2003 that helps members buy, sell and trade business contact information. Open-source software, offshore programmers, commodity-priced servers and other elements of internet infrastructure are better developed, better understood and less costly than before, Fowler says...
full article: http://entrepreneur.com/money/article159950.html