2 month ago
Rod Begbie : Nostalgia - Laughing Meme - Splendidly optimistic post from Kellan. "You remember those dark days after the first bust? You know the ones when all the MBAs left, and the people who loved the Web went on building it" #
deusx : Nostalgia - Laughing Meme - "You remember those dark days after the first bust? You know the ones when all the MBAs left, and the people who loved the Web went on building it — building meaningful, crazy, artistic cool stuff, and the ethos of the social web was born, back be
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3 month ago
deusx : Salon Technology | Howl.com - "I saw the best minds of my occupation destroyed by venture capital, burned-out, paranoid, postal,"
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18 month ago
deusx : Anne 2.1 » Blog Archive » How to Get Out of Your Funk A-Listers: Stop Thinking About Money - "Give me a chance to play with new technology, a bunch of smart online buddies, some money to pay the bills, and I’m happy. For a lot of us, it’s not about the money. It is STILL about the technology and more money floating around doesn’t chang
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31 month ago
philgyford : Peterme.com: Going Back To South Park, Gonna Have Myself A Time - I have fond memories of staying in the Wired corporate flat on San Francisco's South Park for a week in 1996.
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Second Chance Tuesday aims to replicate all the mistakes of the last dot.com boom in London - Some ways to fuck up a good thing: don't trust the people who build things, be parochial in your thinking, look for short-term gain rather than building something with a future, don't care about quality, take lots of drugs
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40 month ago
plasticbag : Top 10 dot-com flops - "Few of these companies actually made enough money to recoup that cash, and when their investors fled to the hills, these start-ups died dramatic deaths. These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
jkottke : Top 10 dot-com flops - CNET rounds up their top 10 dot-com flops and in the process blames everyone but the technology media (*cough*) for the excess of the times. Webvan, Pets.com, and Kozmo top the list.
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