There is a perception in some quarters, generated and fed by the jittery souls among us, that e-commerce is in its death throes, or at the very least, is not what it was cracked up to be. Look at venture funding, those anxious observers say. It has dried up like summer in the Sahara. There is no relief in sight for high-tech worker shortages.
Internet taxation is on the horizon.
Layoffs, credit card fraud, global viruses, high turnover and sloppy customer relations are reaching plague proportions. The Shakedown Strikes at Home A friend of mine who normally calls only to hit me up for a loan surprised me the other day by saying he had some money to invest. Then he asked for advice, which is a first. I recovered enough to give him two pearls of wisdom. Don't listen to a word I say.