Re: UKNM: Three cheers Amazon UK

[Steve Johnston]

On 30/10/98, at 14:29, Aidan Cook  wrote: 


>This maybe terribly naive, but if somebody in the UK has a good enough

>idea, then what is to stop them going to get capital from the US, where by

>all accounts the streets are paved with it? Why didn't bookpages get over

>there and insist that they could be a european Amazon if properly backed?


<sweeping generalisation> US VCs will not invest in anything they cannot drive to.


Steve Johnston

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