Don Valentine (fondateur de Sequoia Capital) parlait en novembre 2004 de ..

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nanotechnologies (“ Which technology or company is most overhyped at the moment?
Nanotech anything, probably in part because of the huge amount of press coverage of what is sort of a lab fascination with the chemical process of making things small. People don't talk about particular applications, like making Pentium chips 50 times faster or curing diabetes.     “)

et de la phase 2 d’Internet (“What new Internet trend most fascinates you now?
I think the first phase of the Internet is established. We think of it here as the Internet, phase two. “)

et des 2 sujets ;-) (“What is phase two?
To us, it's merely the reality phase of something that happens that's overhyped, like nanotech. Now we're really into solid applications, problem solving and business. Look at how much advertising is moving to the Web portals. It's a reconstitution of the way Madison Avenue is thinking about where to place ads.

I got to Silicon Valley in 1959. Nothing is revolutionary; it's evolutionary.

The biggest thing that is making the Internet and all those things more interesting is broadband. It makes the Internet an even more powerful platform in which to buy and sell things--as a media platform and a market. To me it's an issue of patience. (Cisco CEO) John Chambers was talking recently about broadband and indicated that the U.S. is 15th in the world at implementing it. “)

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