'90s Dot-Coms — Where Are They Now? 206
An anonymous reader writes "The Industry Standard has put together a list of 10 dot-com stars from the Internet bubble of the late 1990s, and tracked down what happened to the services and their founders. A lot of the services are still around, albeit under new ownership, including eToys, Garden.com, and DrKoop.com. Others have been completely reinvented — Boo.com, an online clothing retailer that burned through $125 million in funding in the late 1990s, is now an online travel community. Of the founders, many were able to cash out early and/or achieve later online success. Excite's Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer later started JotSpot, which was bought by Google, and Kraus now directs work on Google's OpenSocial initiative. Others did not fare as well, such as two of the co-founders of Garden.com, who declined to cash out at the height of the bubble, and are currently 'between business ventures.' The insiders' post-mortems of the failed dot-coms are interesting — several suggest the concepts were good but too early for their time, while others identify specific factors that led to the failures — ranging from a lack of advertising to 'intense' greed."
Stamps.com (Score:5, Funny)
Of all the Dot Bombs that I would have thought would go tits up, this was one.....guess I was wrong.
Now if only I can get LNUX back to $100 a share, I have a chance to get my IRA back into the black.
Re:Oh, the ironing. (Score:5, Funny)
Instead of seeing it as cashing out, maybe see it like a surfer who knows when the wave is going to break. You get back to shore and people say, "nice ride. here's a better board, go out there and do it again, and this time we'll take pictures!"
Captain going down with his ship is romantic, but maybe not the most practical.
And if I fit any more metaphors into this post I'm going to shoot myself.
They missed one... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You don't understand (Score:3, Funny)
I make $5,000/month sitting at home clicking on banner ads.
Don't you?
Best job I've ever had since I was paid to watch TV.
Re:Oh, the ironing. (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, like the kind of people that make fun of those that missed an HTML tag, and in the process, make a typo themselves. Isn't it a bitch how you can't re-edit something you posted?