Building & Running Websites- What's Next?

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Building & Running Websites- What's Next?

An SI Board Since June 2002

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Emcee: John Pitera	Type: Unmoderated

Introduction Compact

We've seen the Massive Internet Bubble build up over the late 1990's and then flame out in one of the Biggest Financial SuperNova's in History.

I was not kidding when I was talking about the NASD's being 4 standard deviations above it's 200 Day Moving Average back in early 2000 (on the Market Lab threadhead). It was a Speculative Mania of Epic Proportions.

The NASD 100 (NDX) has alone seen it's Market Capitalization Plunge by more than 2/3's from over $6 Trillion in March of 2000, to $2 Trillion and change by May of 2002. And I understand that the Capital is being prudently stewarded by the real Pro's now that it's Gone To Money Heaven As Dr Hunter S Thompson once famously proclaimed.... "When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro -g-

So what's next? What is the Next Wave of Revenue Models and how is it going to complement the existing Revenue Models that are working and viable.

I started looking into building a website for my Financial Advising and Consulting Business back in 1997. I've still got some old HTML books, which people were buying before The Packages like FrontPage came along and worked to make them mostly obsolete.

I've personally been working with People who were building my Pitera Perspectives.com Site since late 1998.

That site Morphed into The current Group Project thecapitalmarkets.com
, which I had originally envisioned as a kind of "Think-Tank" for Macro Market Technical and Fundamental Analysis. That’s now gotten interesting enough that even my now retired Father is contributing Quant. Spreadsheet Analysis and Commentary.

My 3rd website developer beverlyj.com has been so creative, that I’ve ended up selling Websites and IT development applications as their sales guy in my "MoonLight" Hours -g- (that is my marketplace ideas column on BeverlyJ.)

That's been an eye opening experience in terms of all the levels of Internet experience and inexperience there is in the Local Houston Business and User Group community. I've ended up with some really funny stories to tell the piffer crew in Reno, Las Vegas, the East Coast or where ever we next meet.

The People on SI over the years have actually taught me so much about HTML, Web surfing Techniques; and pointed me to so many cool and useful Websites that I want to thank everyone on SI. I've seen the fairly regular rumors that SI may vanish into Cyberspace one day due to INSP's financial woes.

I guess we could go to logon and find that the Horses are indeed Out of the Barn

So I wanted to say, "Thanks for the Memories". I'd be interested in hearing informed comments on Silicon Investor's future and also what could be done to make it "economically viable" (to use the line from Michael Douglas's movie "Falling Down")

I've been researching the profitability of models like AMZN, the WSJ, Cramer's TSCM and Real Money and have a few ideas that I'll post in coming weeks, regarding the state of the Internet Industry and what it may look like when the dust finally settles.

After meeting about 40 People from SI in person over the past 3 years (Robert Furman) is my latest, I know that SI has taught me a lot and also has created some friendships that could well last for years.

John

(I gonna start this as a moderated thread, but it will take a group vote to get anyone bounced, unless they are obvious Penny Stock Spammers-
So don't tout stocks with a 100 million market cap or less unless you know a bit about the balance sheet and have looked at the 10 K or 10 Q.)

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2	In fact I'm burning the midnight oil as I type -g- man are some of these cu	John Pitera	-	6/2/2002
1	Grub... the bottom sentence on this thread head explains the somewhat arcane ref	John Pitera	-	6/2/2002

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