“Me: Your site will cost $80,000. Dot-com client: Fine. Do you want the last $20,000 in stock? Me: We believe in you but… no, we only deal in cash. Dot-com client: Ok, no problem. Here’s the first check. Me (thinking): (It seems to be easy to sell quality web development. Maybe it’s time to expand!)”

“Contestants at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley presented their business plans last week.”

“The founders of Razorfish, the Web design and consulting firm, stepped down from their senior management positions today, as the company reported its first-quarter loss was slightly smaller than Wall Street had expected.”

“Two new protocols proposed by a researcher at the 10th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10) here Thursday would provide a way to use both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ techniques to deliver timely information over the Internet in a way that can grow with the number of customers.”