An article even a lemming can understand!!!
"Stock Market - Boom or Bust?"
overclockers.com
...If somebody is making a ton of money doing something, lots of other people want to join in the fun. Depending on the business, that may or may not be easy. If you want to go against Intel, you either have to spend billions and billions of dollars in fab plants, or pay somebody else who spent the billions and billions of dollars quite a bit to make your chips for you. Since Intel is pretty good at what they do, this is pretty risky. That is why not too many companies make CPUs.
Compared to that, it's a lot easier to build an ISP, or an ecommerce site, or a Website, or a portal, or a distribution of Linux. This is why you see a lot more of those than you see CPU companies. When you have a lot of competition, PRICES GO DOWN, and SO DO PROFITS. This doesn't mean you can't make money, or even not make a lot of money. It means it is unlikely you will make outrageous amounts of money, and outrageously more every year thereafter...
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...At least Yahoo makes a little money. Don't make any money like Amazon, and your head bozo, sorry, Bezos, gets named Man of the Year. For what? Adding an "e" to "bookstore (not exactly drug-dealing when it comes to making money)?" I heard that the Man of the Year said Amazon wouldn't make any money until 2006. Go to your bank and tell your banker that when you want a business loan. Tell your significant other or parents "I'm starting a business, but you'll have to support me until 2006." They'll all call you something, but not Man of the Year... |
