{"id":801,"date":"2002-07-11T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2002-07-11T21:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/next-big-thing\/"},"modified":"2002-07-11T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2002-07-11T21:19:17","slug":"next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/11\/next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Next big thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Mercury News | 07\/10\/2002 | Bad VC market a good time to start a company<\/a><\/p>\n

Wireless technology could be the next launching pad, says Graham Watson, a managing director at Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance.
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\n“It’s been much maligned and suffered badly, but wireless infrastructure is one platform out there that could be a catalyst for a really significant business opportunity,” he says. “Mention wireless or telecom today, and everyone runs a mile. That’s a legacy of the overinvestment from two years ago. But wireless is something that has massive appeal to individuals and corporations. There’s still a huge scope to grow the wireless industry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Could be, but VCs are still pumping money into wireless companies whose founders have no track record with PC networking generally; that money’s going nowhere. Instead of trying to build the next Cisco, they should be trying for the next 3Com. Believe me kids, Cisco’s not going away anytime soon.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Mercury News | 07\/10\/2002 | Bad VC market a good time to start a company Wireless technology could be the next launching pad, says Graham Watson, a managing director at Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance. “It’s been much maligned and suffered badly, but wireless infrastructure is one platform out there that could be a … Continue reading “Next big thing?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-cV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}