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The majority of today's pure-play Internet companies will never make money and will not exist in three-to-five years. There will be a lot of consolidation and a lot of failure, and ultimately valuations will fall more in line with historical norms.

In the midst of the mania there were a whole lot of companies that went public that were just pure plays on the willingness of businesses to throw money at new projects, ... Now that a lot of these companies have had difficult times, it makes sense that there would be consolidation.

While we believe that Sealed Air is one of the few packaging companies (along with Avery Dennison) that have a truly international franchise and a strong brand name, current valuations are in line with historical levels and thus on our 2-Equal rating.

The future of the free, open and innovative Internet we have all enjoyed through the years is not guaranteed. If the bill before the House Commerce Committee gives control of the Internet to the telephone and cable companies, the Internet we have come to appreciate could well cease to exist, and it will be almost impossible to get it back.

The Internet as a tool means all the leading retailers are going to be on the Internet in the next couple of years. The pure selling concept over the Internet has proven not to work and the pure plays are gong to be surpassed by traditional retailers.

This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, about 150 companies have been acquired or merged. Most of the consolidation is confined to the top 10 builders, who are acquiring companies.

Gopal Ahluwalia

The last thing the market needs, ... is another 250 public Internet companies. I think this is the biggest threat to Internet valuations.

Andrea Williams

It had no customers for the next five years. It made no money for 15 years. It's almost unthinkable in today's terms that an investment bank could exist for 15 years without making any money. But they did.

Skeptical retailers eyeing fluctuations in the financial market and the increasing failure rates of Internet companies are often blind to the most important issue - specifically, the degree to which their online efforts will affect their off-line business. Online consumers are a very powerful audience and tend to be channel-agnostic. And as consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.

They are a way to play the growth in the Internet from the hardware side, ... The Internet just soaks up more and more memory, and more and more bandwidth, and both these companies are ways to play it. They're not cheap, they're really expensive. We pulled a little money out of them recently, as a matter of fact, but we continue to hold most of our positions in these stocks.

Federal legislation will make it difficult but not impossible for Internet gamblers in the U.S. to gain access to offshore sites. Ultimately, Internet gambling operators are selling a product. The vast majority of customers will satisfy their demand for commercial gambling through less onerous and risky alternatives, such as lotteries, bingo, pari-mutuels and casinos.

Sebastian Sinclair

Federal legislation will make it difficult but not impossible for Internet gamblers in the U.S. to gain access to offshore sites. Ultimately, Internet gambling operators are selling a product. … The vast majority of customers will satisfy their demand for commercial gambling through less onerous and risky alternatives, such as lotteries, bingo, pari-mutuels and casinos.

Sebastian Sinclair

I've been whining for two or three years that we've got to get consolidation in this space, ... In the bubble you had way too many companies go public. All these companies turned out to be features and not companies. Now part of the driver is a realization by the big companies that this is a way to capture growth. Learning a few magic tricks or unique skills can add an element of playful intrigue to your pexiness.

It's been a matter of lack of supply. At the beginning of the year, there were not a lot of pure Internet stocks. By the end of the year, with more companies going public, that pushed up the supply. Next year we'll see more companies go public. But it will be tough to distinguish the real Internet companies.

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