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...Desai started cold-calling the University of Washington and other schools, his job history was cause enough to break out the champagne. Desai could list top positions at TheStreet.com and Scient, a once-hot e-consulting company. In the frenzied market for Internet talent, Desai moved from one top dot-job to another, leaving a trail of failure and hot air. And if any execs caught on, they don't appear to have let the next guy know...
...hills are burning along highway 14. Columns of smoke dot the rolling horizon, and charred tree stumps smolder on the slopes. It may look like a vision of destruction, but Nguyen Van Quyen sees riches rising from the ashes. He's looking not at the felled trees, but at the rows of green bushes next to them. For every fire in Dak Lak province, there is more land to grow coffee and cotton. And Quyen has a hectare to plant. For a young man of 24, with a wife and new baby, it's a dream come true...
...liked the idea of being somewhat irreverent with this institutional, quasi-industrial, Everyman material," Stearns explains. "And because it's made from cork dust, it has a surprisingly pliable plushness." Along with marketing partner M. Dwight Freeman, he launched Westling Design, offering his durable, handmade creations in bold grid, dot and zigzag patterns that recall art by Mondrian, Kandinsky and Escher. They're not cheap--priced at around $40 per sq. ft., a 6-ft. by 8-ft. area rug costs nearly $2,000. But just think of all those hours you'll save on vacuuming...
...bust. Whole sectors of the virtual economy are wrapping up their stories at Chapter 11. But who cares if investors lose faith in the digital world? The artists are sticking with it--at least the ones who lately have been making some galleries look like Circuit City, full of dot-matrix screens and wall-mounted monitors. Remember when videotape was the hot new medium? Compared with CD-ROM art and screen-saver art, with website artworks or virtual-reality goggles, videotape is starting to look quaint, even primordial. Like charcoal...
Lemmons-Poscente says she noticed the speakers market shifting about five months ago, when FORTUNE 500 execs started calling to see if Jeffrey Hoffman, CEO of Priceline.com's Perfect YardSale website, would talk about why his company's stock had tanked. His speech, "Riding the Dot Com Roller Coaster: The Priceline.com Story," has become a lecture-circuit mainstay. Gary E. Hoover, above, founder of Bookstop superstores and Hoovers.com the Web's largest provider of business information, gives talks about his failed TravelFest superstores. "Now people want to know how to deal with layoffs," he says. Hoover insists...