Stivison--E-commerce Has Arrived

Where does a 400-lb. gorilla sit?

In this era of mega-mergers and high-flying Internet stock valuations, we are hearing some very large numbers. But most of these numbers seem like abstractions. There is the common-sense part of our minds that rebels at multibillion-dollar market valuations of cyber companies with paltry physical assets and no profits whatsoever. Sure the numbers are big, but they seem as relevant to our day-to-day world of laying ink down on paper as those astronomers use to tell us the number of light years to some distant star.