By many measures America's economy is in pretty good shape. The stock market looks healthy and high tech as measured by the NASDAQ index ooks even better. So why aren't you turning first to the business pages, and planning your next investment as so many people did in the late 90's?
Ordinary investors are staying away from the markets, but now along comes Google, the world's most popular internet search engine and its talk of a initial public offering of shares an IPO. All of a sudden there's a bit of buzz again, talk about buying into what could, overnight, become a $15 billion dollar company. Experts wonder if this means a return of the tech boom, and a reconciliation between the wizards of high tech, and the average investors high hopes.
Ed Roberts, Professor of Management of Technology at MIT's Sloan School, Founder and Chairman of the MIT Entrepeneurship Center, and co-founder of Zero Stage Capital, in Boston, MA
Amy Salzhauer, General Partner and Founder of Ignition Ventures, based in Cambridge, MA and New York City.
