From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Creating markets (long)
Date: 15 Sep 1994 17:00:43 GMT
Date: 1994-09-15T17:00:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 351m34$1706@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
In article <351m34$1706@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com writes:
>It reminds me of the (fictional) story of the corporation offered the
>opportunity to build the George Washington Bridge as a private
>enterprise, and in return to receive the rights to all tolls collected.
>The corporation observed that there were no cars currently driving across
>the Hudson River between upper Manhattan and Ft. Lee, NJ, and concluded
>that there was no market for the bridge.
I heard a variant of this story, where the river was unnamed, the
corporation was IBM, and the marketing study was done by placing a
boat in the center of the river and counting the number of people
swimming across.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-10 20:59 Creating markets (long) Michael Feldman
1994-09-10 23:19 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 17:44 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-11 0:32 ` Roger Labbe
1994-09-11 17:46 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-12 13:46 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-15 17:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
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1994-09-19 2:22 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-19 3:57 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-22 16:19 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-25 12:59 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1994-09-19 13:59 ` James Hopper
1994-09-21 0:57 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-21 5:32 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1994-09-27 4:30 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-19 14:36 ` James Hopper
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1994-09-19 21:37 Michael Hagerty
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