Re: UKNM: anyone got capital?

[Mark Curtis]

I think this is changing. Six months ago, it was certainly the picture. Now,

we are seeing and hearing of a lot of start up ventures which do have

funding. I think the capital markets are waking up in the UK, and we can

expect to see a wave of activity in the second half of this year.


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Date: 17 June 1999 18:40

Subject: UKNM: anyone got capital?



>I would be interested to hear people's views on why independently funded

>e-commerce (or content) sites are quite few and far between?

>

>It seems that lastminute.com and QXL are doing pretty well and have pretty

>high exposure, but I would have thought there would be a boom in start-ups

>with the pretty awesome increase in the UK online community over the past

>year.  Instead I see the traditional retailers and businesses (or the US

>internet retailers) making the tentative steps and allowing them to start

>to cement their position in this new marketplace in the consumers' mind.

>

>Is it the same old story of the financial community not investing in UK

>start-ups?  Or is it that the size of the UK market still isn't big or

>mature enough to justify and find reasonable return for start-up

>businesses?  New economy or just a new media?

>

>On a postcard please.

>

>David

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