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...beer lover hoping to jump on the bandwagon ought first to take a lesson from Beer School, Hindy and Potter's recent book about how they built their company. Microbreweries had their own version of the dotcom boom and bust in the early 1990s, when it seemed that a brew pub was opening (and soon closing) on every corner. The ones that survived "were willing to do the nitty-gritty hard work," says Ray Daniels, marketing director for craft beer at the Brewers Association, an industry trade group...
...height of dotcom mania, a lot of folks found it easy to hold up the boss for a raise. ?Give me what I?m worth or I?ll pack up my family pictures and head to BigDreams.com,? went the threat. It worked for a while. Then BigDreams.com went bust, the economy went with it, and working stiffs have been pining for the glory days of easy job-hopping and fat pay hikes ever since. Are those days coming back...
...says Laura Mills of Merrill Lynch in London. Pay-TV operator British Sky Broadcasting is buying the British broadband network Easynet for $367 million. Deutsche Telekom is trying to buy back the outstanding shares of T-Online, the Internet services arm it spun off at the height of the dotcom boom. And Italy's Tiscali and Fastweb are reported to be seeking investors to help them take on Telecom Italia in that country's race for triple-play market share. The wave of wheeling and dealing clearly has risks. NTL, for example, is still hashing out the terms...
...worked with didn't measure up. India is more focused on business applications than shrink-wrapped software, so they realized they had to run the project themselves. But to do it in Greensboro meant raising $3.2 million. Their business plan was sound, but it was 2001, just after the dotcom bust, and investors weren't buying. Again they looked to India for a solution, but this time resolved to go there themselves. The plan: nine months of development and a mere $600,000 to launch. Borrowing on credit, cashing out retirement plans and selling houses, cars, furniture and clothes, they...
...Network Walkman,” nor a “Dell DJ Ditty,” nor even a “MobiBlu DAH.” There are other music stores, of course—Sony has their own, Napster has been rebranded from a dotcom-era law-defiant hotbed of copyright criminality into a legal market for music, and even Walmart has entered the fray. And you can play the songs from these stores on any mp3 player you’d like from Sony, Dell, or Creative—but not on your iPod. The culprit...