We want to hear about people's problems but solve them only if they're generally applicable. We're aggressive about managing what we do and what we don't do, and about stopping projects if the hypothesis not correct. I really enjoy the building, and I don't believe in incubators, although there is a place for incubation as part of something else. There used to be a lot of good work done in government labs, and that's less now. Our first spinout is in the wireless space, and other things we're doing will span everything from security areas, to a couple of things in the routing area, to projects in the network system interface area.
Cycles exist in the stock market and always have existed.
The dynamics of the market is not just about interest rates. You couple that with interest rates and oil prices and energy. In hard times, people have even more of a bunker mentality, and we have to fight against that and not use the economy as an excuse not to do the right things. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. ZDNet and Ziff Davis Media are no longer affiliated with each other.