Word: dotcomers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Based on any 20th century valuation model, the big brands are screaming buys, selling at huge discounts to the market. In the 21st century, things are different. Consider, for instance, how Wall Street values P&G's sales compared with those of a dotcom retailer. P&G's price-to-sales ratio: $2.12 of stock per dollar of sales. The same dollar's worth of Tide, say, sold through Priceline.com costs shareholders more: $26.11, based on Priceline's recent close of $94. And to own a dollar-size piece of the sales at fledgling dotcom grocery Webvan, you'll have...
...Dolly begat Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom... The British company that shocked the world by producing the first cloned sheep announced Tuesday that it had produced five cloned piglets - and not only that, certain genes had been "knocked out" of some organ cells of the above-named piglets, signaling a breakthrough in the medical application of cloning technology: Knocking out the genes prevents a human recipient from rejecting a pig organ transplant. "This opens the door to making modified pigs whose organs and cells can be successfully transplanted into humans - the only near-term solution to solving the worldwide...
...worked. What emerged over the next two years was a hypersmart and sassy voice that does for Silicon Valley and Alley what CNBC did for Wall Street. Knowing what you're talking about counts for a lot in a world of shrieking dotcom hype, and the Standard cut through the noise with speed, exuberance, minimal jargon and a dash of self-deprecating humor. Advertisers ate it up, and the Standard got very fat very quickly. Issue No. 1 had an anemic 25 pages of ads; now they frequently top 200. Ad revenues rose from less than $2 million...
...billion business-publishing market is set to reach $25 billion by 2003. The more established monthly Red Herring will break even for the first time this year. Its editor, Tony Perkins, doubts his younger rival can stay afloat if the money dries up. "We shouldn't assume dotcom advertising is going to be around forever," he says. "It'll be hard to sustain a weekly deadwood publication...
Director Younger is only 27, and possibly just a tad retro. If he were really on cynicism's cutting edge, wouldn't Seth have a dotcom and be frantically kiting an IPO? Maybe not. Maybe that's the sequel. In the meantime, we have this curiously intense, alertly principled, refreshingly uncynical movie to savor...