Word: dotcomism
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...TRADE, MONKEY II At Super Bowl 2000, in the glory year of the dotcom ads, the online trader proudly blew $2 million on a spot featuring a dancing monkey. At Super Bowl 2001, the monkey rode through a ghost town littered with the graves of Tieclasp.com, Pimentoloaf.com"--and the lifeless body of a familiar-looking sock puppet. At least the Internet boom could laugh at its own funeral...
Most of today's B2B survivors have learned key lessons from the flameouts of firms like Ventro of Mountain View, Calif. Born in 1997, the dotcom promised to become the premier marketplace for laboratory tools and chemicals and attracted bushels of investor capital. That inspired it to build other exchanges for medical supplies, packaged foods and everything in between. Its stock soared to $244 a share in February 2000. But it ran up enormous costs trying to create online catalogs that could interface with the wide variety of purchasing programs already used by its clients. And those costs would have...
...Best Dotcom Survivor With the simplest of business models - matching buyers to sellers and taking a percentage of each completed sale - the online auction powerhouse eBay rode out the wave of antitech sentiment that drowned many other former stars. The company has grabbed about 90% of the online consumer auction market. Almost 38 million registered users can't be wrong...
...with the Internet, he was put in charge of News Corp.'s Web operations. Neither venture produced the kind of results that launch careers. The severely pared-down music division is now on the verge of being sold. News Corp. also recently took a $300 million write-off for dotcom investments James championed...
...WHITMAN When a headhunter begged her to interview at a fledgling dotcom, Whitman, then an executive at Hasbro's preschool division, at first declined. But she reconsidered and within a couple of years turned EBAY into the most successful pure Internet company while making herself the first woman Internet billionaire. Whitman, 44, has made eBay--with more merchandise than ever, including $1 billion a year in auto sales and 37 million users worldwide--a truly global marketplace...