Friday, April 22, 2005

business 101

> As soon as Drkoop.com's conference call with analysts ended, Jupiter > Communications' switchboard must have lit up with calls from > journalists. The Times' AP story quoted one of Jupiter's analysts > dubbing the just-ended conference call a "funeral call (for) a patient > on the operating table that's gone into heart failure." CNET's Greg > Sandoval found a Jupiter expert, analyst Rachel Terrace, to pinpoint > the Netco's main problem: "Drkoop didn't diversify their revenue > streams enough to include commerce. This is an old story. Content > sites can't survive on advertising alone." - Keith Dawson

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