“We don’t have an image problem. We have a reality problem.”
Seth Godin, CEO of online direct marketer Yoyodyne, on the consumer privacy woes of Internet ad-hawkers, The Industry Standard, 21 August 1998
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STALKING THE PROSPECTIVE
“The basic methodology of advertising since I’ve been alive has been breaking and entering.”
Myer Berlow, AOL’s senior vice president of interactive marketing, explaining his company’s choose-or-lose ads that appear on login, The New York Times, 24 August 1998
THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS
“The problem with ‘portal’ is that it implies an entry and an exit.”
Lycos CEO Bob Davis, deconstructing his competitors’ a-click-through-every-minute business model, News.com, 20 August 1998
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
“We view the world as having two types of searches, and we’re adding a third.”
Gary Culliss, chairman and cofounder of Direct Hit, on how his company’s Web search technology will simplify things for users, News.com, 21 August 1998
MAKE MONEY NOW — DON’T ASK ME HOW
“Yeah, yeah, very hot, blah blah blah. I like businesses that make money now.”
James J. Cramer, infamously goateed hedge fund manager and chairman of TheStreet.com, responding to a question about Internet auction house eBay (not his own unprofitable financial publishing venture), TheStreet.com/Yahoo Chat transcript, 19 August 1998
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