Word: dotcomers
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...addictive allure of high-speed Internet access at home-have made it all the harder to detach from work. Finally, when you consider the retrenchments and economic wipeouts that have set the temper of their working lives over the past decade-the financial crisis of 1997, the dotcom implosion of 2000, the downturn in the wake of SARS in 2003-it's easy to see why Asian men have prioritized work. "Since 1997, it's not been possible to get a bonus," says Wong, the Hong Kong buyer and father of four. Spurred by the fear that their incomes will...
From its founding in 1986, the Tom Peters Co., based in Cincinnati, Ohio, waxed and waned with business cycles, with Peters promoting the company at varying levels of intensity. After the dotcom bust, Peters' high-risk, big-payoff consulting projects, which preached blowing up business-as usual, were less in vogue. The bulk of the company's business was in its safer leadership training, mostly using non-Peters material that emphasized behavioral assessment and leadership preparation. In 2004, Peters, who had moved his personal life from California to Vermont, decided that "it was silly to have a company in Cincinnati...
...organic goodies, such as his daily dose of Kagome juice, delivered by MobiTV's kitchen (stocked by the same people who do Google's food service), clicks with his interest in nature and biology. But Pressler is like a lot of thirtysomething tech vets who experienced the dotcom bust: reliable, flexible--and portable...
Once you've sold a company for $2.6 billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand. Having launched Kazaa, one of the first music-file-sharing networks, in 2001 and Skype, the first big Internet-powered phone service, in 2003, the duo began work a year ago on a secret venture dubbed the Venice Project, whose goal...
...surprisingly, comparisons are being drawn between China's stock boom and the U.S. dotcom bubble. Certainly there are similarities, such as a frenzy for initial public stock offerings. As investor demand for Chinese stocks has increased, so has the list of mainland companies eager to cash in on the mania by going public. In 2006, Chinese firms raised more than $53 billion in the Hong Kong and Shanghai markets through IPOs and secondary share offerings, up from $24 billion the year before. Among them was the largest IPO in history, November's $22 billion listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai...