Thursday, December 22, 2005
Microsoft Is Losing Some Of Its Elbow Room
Microsoft Is Losing Some Of Its Elbow Room: "Rob Enderle, a longtime Silicon Valley analyst and observer of Microsoft Corp., remembers what used to happen when a tech start-up sought funding for a business that might brush up against the software giant's universe.
'It would be hard to get a meeting' with venture capitalists, Enderle recalls. 'It would be harder not to get laughed at in the meeting. And to get any money, you'd have to get them drunk first.'"
'It would be hard to get a meeting' with venture capitalists, Enderle recalls. 'It would be harder not to get laughed at in the meeting. And to get any money, you'd have to get them drunk first.'"
