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Creating a Dot Com in 24 Hours

wackybrit — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:25:27 -0800

The 24 Hour Dot Com. Two Swedish students at the 'Wizards of OS' conference in Berlin decided to start a dot com, build it up, and cash in within twenty four hours. Their IRC logs make great reading to see how they bought the PR and 'product' together. The dot com has now 'IPOed' and is available to buy on eBay.

zeoslap — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:51:26 -0800

100 Dumbest Moments in dotcom land a particular favourite being.. "Candice Carpenter tells Fast Company in Feb 98, 'There isn't an Internet company in the world that's going to fail because of mistakes -- Internet companies make thousands of mistakes every week" .... quite :) (via lesser-evil)

m@ — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:58:01 -0800

The founders of Webshots.com sold out to Excite@home in '99 for $82.5M, they just bought it back--for $2.4M. $6.7B Excite.com goes for $10M and Blue Mountain Greetings ($780M) goes for $35M. A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon we're talking more than pocket change.

tomato — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:41:39 -0800

Snapshots of san francisco: one man's view of the san francisco dot-com fiz-out. (more people should have websites, i can't get enough.) -- flash needed

fooljay — Tue, 22 May 2001 00:00:32 -0800

Has Pud gone soft? Perhaps all of the money he's generating from his email lists have given him an alternate reality?

shackbar — Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:35:07 -0800

Buffett calls Internet investing "a big trap"
If only many investors would have listened to Mr. Buffett a few years ago. Today, in Omaha, Buffett said, "But I think the idea that you could take any business idea and turn it into wealth on the Internet is just wrong." Common sense strikes again.

shauna — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:51:15 -0800

7 Lessons Learned From The Dot-com Fallout -- "Some of these are so obvious it's almost too embarrassing to list them." Indeed.

christian — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:16:17 -0800

Kozmo's website is back up but this time with an interesting memo:
". . . any rental item you do not return by April 16,2001 will be deemed a purchase and your credit card will be charged the full retail value of the item."

the site came back up yesterday. not much notice for returns . . .

JParker — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:31:39 -0800

"Accept our valuation or let Sand Hill put you into Chapter 11." This article from Red Herring on bridge financing for cash-strapped dotcoms makes the dire nature of the situation pretty explicit.

gluechunk — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:22:20 -0800

mylackey.com (an overpriced errand service) closed shop...and I'm disappointed that there's no secret message in the source code.

mathowie — Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:26:58 -0800

The delay in adding new top level domains drags on, and there seems to be no solution in sight. ICANN can't agree on whether or not to add new TLDs like .biz, .cars, or .corp., but they are discussing it at an upcoming meeting in March. I would hope they add enough domains to make domain squatting difficult, but I bet large corporations will just buy everything with their name it anyway, and fight over others' use of their name with a different TLD. What a mess.