Word: dotcomism
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...Europe's turn to run the world? The prevailing mood at this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos was that the U.S., once the home of irrational exuberance and dotcom mania, is just so 20th century. Yet the five members of TIME's Board of Economists, which convened in the Swiss ski resort, were less than unanimous. No one disputed that the U.S. economy is slowing and could even grind toward a recession, though most agreed that a recovery would come by late this year. The hottest debate was over Europe's ability to isolate itself from...
Sure, the days of the dotcom billionaires are now past, but that doesn't mean you can't start or buy your own business. Get a bank loan and open a franchise restaurant in your home town. Find some cheap, nostalgic piece of clothing you can have mass-produced in Asia, then take out a sumptuously-worded romantic ad in The New Yorker and sell the things for an 800 percent markup (if you think I'm kidding, that's how the J. Peterman catalog was started). Or, best of all, find a couple of electrical engineers who have...
...important hospitality sector has been reaching out to more diverse markets?wooing international conferences with an impressive $350 million convention center, courting China's growing cadre of affluent travelers by opening a marketing office in Beijing, and seeking ever more extravagant ways to indulge the whims of dotcom millionaires from Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area...
Half got a jump-start from one of the greatest publicity coups in dotcom history. Its marketing guru talked Halfway, Ore. (pop. 345), into renaming itself Half.com Ore., in exchange for $75,000 and 22 computers. The move made national headlines and landed Kopelman on NBC's Today Show with Katie Couric. Traffic and sales soared, and by June, Half was the 18th largest e-commerce site, with 250,000 registered users. That month eBay plunked down more than $300 million in stock to buy the company...