F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts
 

F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts

by Philip J. Kaplan

A 'Darwin Awards' for the digital age, a hilarious chronicle of dot-com mania and disaster from the Internet folk hero and fuckedupcompany.com creator, Phil Kaplan. Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan - no problem. You could still get 40 million dollars from investors to... (read more)

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Member Reviews

  • dgcohen23
    • Rated 4 stars

    f'ing hilarious. this has to be on your bookshelf if you've ever worked anywhere that has .com in the name. i read it once a year - it's funny how so many of the ideas come back like boomerangs.

    dgcohen23 wrote this review Thursday, September 13 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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