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Thought for the day . . .

Jun 23 2005 by Brian Amble
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Thought for the day - from Joe Kraus, one of the founders of the Excite search engine that predated Google:

"The 20th Century mass production world was about dozens of markets of millions of people. The 21st Century is all about millions of markets of dozens of people."

And - very aptly, given Excite's history: "Being early is the same as being wrong"

BBC Online | Lessons from Silicon Valley

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