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Stone says she has not planned beyond her year with the Nieman Foundation, conceding that she is part of the “dot-com dead pool...
...height of the dot-com fever, many in the business world felt that a lack of an MBA degree was not necessarily an impediment to entrepreneurial success. But now that the fantasy is over, business and law schools seem to be more attractive to those looking for a stable paycheck...
...hope San Francisco can hold onto the great entreprenurial spirit of the dot-com boom, but I also hope that the next time around we can judge an idea on its merits before we throw millions...
...Robin S. Lee’s “Postcard from San Francisco: The New New Economy” (Opinion, Aug. 10). I moved to San Francisco a year ago—probably the worst time to come here in recent years. No one knew that the dot-com bubble was about to burst, so workers were still flocking here to grab a piece of the pie, and landlords had a field day charging exorbitant rents for ordinary apartments...
...Condemning Internet entrepreneurs for launching too many businesses too quickly is like criticizing a thirsty guy for drinking too much water. It was promiscuous VCs, after all, who were throwing money at anything with a dot-com in its name. When I last checked, it was the business types who were supposed to make sure the companies they invested in had sound business plans. And it was the analysts who were supposed to figure out what could make money and what couldn...