The last quarterly report of the Commission of the Market of the Telecommunications states a very important growth on Internet sales in Catalonia, specially with respect to services related to travelling (airplane tickets, hotel reserves…). The same is happening in the rest of the European Union.

On the other hand, in the last edition of Wired magazine, it is analyzed what already begins to be denominated as a new boom of Internet companies, at least in the USA. An example of what I am saying is that the mergers and acqusitions market related to Internet companies is starting to grow again. Nevertheless, without entering into the exaggerated valuations that were used just before the bubble explosion.

Another data to consider is that 1999-2000 business plans are being recycled an used again. Business plans that were never developed, or that failed at that time because the market was not prepared yet or because a bad execution.

Probably the models were good, but they went ahead to its times or they were executed with the prevailing irrationality at those moments. But, what has changed five years later? Several possible reasons arise to explain why ideas that failed years ago could be a success in the future. I will analyze them in the next articles