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F'd Companies Author: Philip Kaplan This is a great book with insight into the dot com bubble blow out. Very funny, though crude humor! (warning: foul language) Title: F'd Companies Author: Philip Kaplan Year: 2002 The book includes the following sections: 1. tough ship pets.com webvan Kosmo.com furniture.com 2. solution in search of a problem eRegister.com iHarvest.com Third Voice Wwwrr.com eMaker ... and many others 3. if it sounds too good to be true ... 4. messy ending 5. quit while you re ahead 6. .... you get the picture ... Basicly it lists dot com companies that have gone (belly up) out of business, or bankrupt, and the common sense reasons for their failure as web based businesses. Great behind the scenes info about these massive capital investment failure, with respect to these dot com companies. Incedentaly, the title "F'd" is acronym for a famous bad word ... you got the picture. *** More Info *** Kaplan brings humor to the great Internet bubble burst in 2000 in this book based on his notorious website. F'D COMPANIES offers short takes on many of the sudden online deaths, flame-outs, and horrible business debacles that crowned the Internet heyday. 191 pages Height: 7.5 in. Width: 5.3 in. Thickness: 0.8 in. Weight: 10.4 oz. 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 from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then, around April 2000, it all came crashing down. Smart investors, esteemed analysts, and the business press found themselves asking: Who knew people wouldn't rush out to trade in their U.S. dollars for a virtual currency called Flooz? Who knew people wouldn't blow all their Flooz on a used car from the guys at iMotors.com? And who needed a used car from iMotors.com when they could just sit at home and have 40-lb. bags of dog food delivered to them by a sock puppet? F'd Companies captures the waste, greed, and human stupidity of more than 100 dot-com companies. Written in Philip J. Kaplan's popular, cynical style, these profiles are filled with colorful anecdotes, factoids, and information unavailable anywhere else. Together they form a gleeful encyclopedia of how not to run a business. They also capture a truly remarkable period of history. F'd Companies is required reading for everyone involved in the "new economy" -- assuming your severance check can cover the cost. Nonfiction Books Category: Business & Economics Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN-10: 0743228626 Condition: Used Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2002
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