Word: dotcomism
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...senior development officer, was turned down when she asked to make the part-time arrangement permanent. "With the job market contracted so much, the opportunities just aren't there anymore," says Marlin, who hates to see her $100,000 law education go to waste. "Back in the dotcom days, people just wanted employees to stay. There was more flexibility. Who knows? Maybe the market will change...
When a few Harvard undergraduates and some recent alums got together about five years ago to build SparkNotes.com, an online repository of short-and-sweet commentary on classic works of literature, they exhibited an entrepreneurial spirit characteristic of the late 90s dotcom boom that surrounded them. That particular wave of fervor more or less subsided when the bottom fell out of the stock market; however, it seems that Harvard’s own version of the internet land-grab is still in full swing. By my best count, somewhere between six and eight unique web-based services written...
...turned it into a business. StubHub moved an estimated $60 million worth of tickets in 2003 and also turned its first profit. "StubHub's concept centralizes a big, fragmented market," says David Kirsch, a University of Maryland business professor who studies both the suckers and the survivors of the dotcom era. "It's a company I'd take...
...London. During one particularly long night of proofreading PowerPoint slides and commiserating by phone about finding yet another error courtesy of their companies' in-house document service, they had an epiphany. They would find a better way of doing that work. This was at the height of the dotcom boom, and everyone they knew was trying to figure out a way to Silicon Valley. These two had a different idea. They would go to India, set up a team of accountants and desktop-publishing experts and persuade investment banks in New York to outsource their confidential financial documents and client...
...prices. Liu of Atlantis warns that investors should stick to IPOs of big, stable companies that have solid earnings growth. "You have to be sure you know about the company and have done your homework," she says. Otherwise, you're likely to end up with a painful case of dotcom d?j?...