Released on = January 5, 2006, 3:41 pm

Press Release Author = Opus One Ventures

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = In 2004 and early 2005 the hot buzzwords included
"Virtualization" and "Terahertz". Now the online retailing is once again picking up
steam. Many of the business models that failed during the dot com crash are back.

Press Release Body = Venture Funding is beginning to flow back into Online Retail.
In 2004 and early 2005 the hot buzzwords included "Virtualization" and "Terahertz".
Now the online retailing is once again picking up steam.

"Many of the business models that failed during the dot com crash are back with a
vengeance," says Brock Forbes, managing partner of Opus One Ventures in Southern
California (http://www.opusoneventures.com). "The main difference we\'re seeing is
that these businesses are acting more like traditional businesses - they are
concerned about building and sustaining revenue, reducing expenses and long term
growth. In the past we saw business models that consumed tons of capital and
produced little in return. Now we see businesses that cost less to launch and can
sustain themselves."

New technologies focused on cutting the costs associated with tech development and
using that as a competitive advantage may seem bring. However more and more
businesses are focusing their efforts on those two areas and becoming wildly
profitable along the way.

The software available today, including virtualization
(http://virtual.backlinkcentral.com) and tools such as Ruby On Rails, are lowering
the overall cost of development as well as offshoring tech labor
(http://offshore.askstart.com) have combined to create an environment where it is
very inexpensive to start a new business.

Others in the venture community are seeing a different factor driving the resurgence
in consumer technology. That is lifestyle, specifically the haziness between work
life and home life. In a culture that shops online from the office and writes office
memorandum from laptops at home, where people carry their Palm Treo to stay in touch
with customers, and then download movies at work, it\'s getting harder to draw the
line between consumer and enterprise technology. People want entertainment at work,
and they want to be able to work productively from home.

Forbes says "It appears this trend will continue into 2006 and beyond. We are
aggressively targeting this market segment with our venture fund at Opus One
Ventures (http://www.opusoneventures.com)."
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