Wow can you have great taste and less filling? Innovation at utility pricing? Can you get to the New Florence and not spend your life savings?
See this story on Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite in Business 2.0. Look the economics today compared to just 7-8 years ago. Intel based hardware, open source, global labor, search based marketing, (and likely some software as a service). He says from idea to launch cost him $ 3 m at Excite, and only $ 100K on his new venture Jotspot. Wow, even if the ratio was 3 to 1 rather than 30 to 1, it would be impressive.
I am even more convinced the bigger software and services vendors are Killing the Golden Goose.
