Would You Buy a Used Dotcom from this Man?

[mandy]

With venture capital stirring again, the Mayfield Fund's Allen Morgan says the best place to find the next big thing is in the dust of the bust...

In his office at the northwest corner of Mayfield's Sand Hill Road building, Morgan dispenses a pearl of wisdom. "Having a dialup connection," he says, "really sucks."

And that's how he crystallized his counterintuitive contention about the viability of some late-'90s business models. While many chalk up the dotcom extinction to the catastrophic impact of a single asteroid called economic rationality, Morgan holds that it was actually a series of fundamental factors - broadband access, consumer buy-in, search technology, and Web advertising. Five years ago, he says, they were the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Today, he says, they should be known as the Fantastic Four.

The Four Horsemen were killers...

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