Everyone is gunning for Apple. According to Forbes we are squarely in the middle of a point in history where the speed of innovation is causing entrepreneurs, innovators and investors to question everything they know about business. Never have we witnessed a point in time when companies that were thought to be bulletproof so quickly fall into the trash heap labeled: has been and wanna be.
To be an established technology company in such an environment is an exercise in prescription drug dependance and paranoia. To be an up and coming technology entrepreneur during such a time is an exercise in opportunity and limitless possibility.
Ten years ago investors thought companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO) and Yahoo (YHOO) possessed the dominance and relative value necessary to blossom into investments that would put their kids through college, fund an expensive bathroom with an odd looking sink, or perhaps support an addiction that had become way too fun to give up. Instead these companies have been left behind by investors as technology has already turned them into dinosaurs.
Even worse than becoming a dinosaur is becoming a fossil embedded in solid rock, covered up by mounds of dirt…
Find out more at http://blogs.forbes.com/investor/2011/06/27/apple-google-ebay-siri-slash-burn-investors/
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