Product Description

The recent Internet stock crash has caused investors and managers to throw the baby out with the bath water. The gloom surrounding many publicly traded Internet companies makes objective evaluation of their performance difficult. In Net Profit, author Peter Cohan breaks down the complexity of the Internet market by answering two basic questions: Who makes money on Internet-related business? And how do they do it? His incisive analyses of leading Internet companies, their competitors, and their chances for continued growth pinpoint the factors that investors and managers in Internet business must examine to ensure future success.
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2334567 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-29
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From Amazon.com
With all the uncertainty and hoopla around the Internet, how can investors and business managers hit the right financial buttons? In Net Profit, Peter S. Cohan, a premier Internet consultant and stock picker, analyzes the trade's top companies--including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, America Online, and Cisco Systems--and offers some compelling insights for investors and businesses on the Web or those considering it. "This book is about the companies that are working to make economic sense of the Web," Cohan writes. "And it is about a search for the business strategies that distinguish the market leaders from their peers."

Cohan identifies nine segments of the industry--infrastructure, consulting, venture capital, security, portals, e-commerce, Web content, Internet service providers, and commerce tools. He judges each of the leading companies in the nine fields on its management, breadth of customer service, and most critical, ability to deliver a product that is so scarce and important that it carries a high price. Most Internet companies fail to meet all of Cohan's strict standards. Portal leader Yahoo!, for example, lacks economic clout over advertisers because of tough rivals in the traditional media. Cohan gives high grades to technology consultants like Gartner Group, venture capital firms, and network builder Cisco. He loves Cisco because it controls 80 percent of the router market, keeps customers by providing other network components, and shows a knack for acquiring smaller companies. Easy to understand, Net Profit features some key strategies for competing on the Internet. Cohan also helps companies evaluate whether it makes sense even to offer services on the Web. --Dan Ring

Review
"Net Profit clearly shows how to distinguish companies with successful Internet strategies from those that will be left behind in cyberspace. It is must reading for investors, executives, and anyone who wants to understand how to analyze or develop an Internet business model." (Fred M. Gerson, former vice president and CFO, Marimba, Inc.)

"Why are portal companies, with only hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, valued at tens of billions of dollars? And is this valuation justified and sustainable? In Net Profit, Peter Cohan explains why those who use the Internet to communicate with their customers will flourish, and those who do not will perish." (Roger Sippl, general partner, Sippl Macdonald Ventures)

Book Info
Breaks down the complexity of the Internet market, helping readers distinguish which publicly-traded Internet stocks will last and make a profit, and which will be left in their wake. Analyzes Internet companies, their competitors, and their chances of growth, using that information to pinpoint their chances of stock market success. Softcover. DLC: Internet industry.