The Dot.Bomb Survival Guide: Surviving (and Thriving) in the Dot.Com Implosion

by Sean Carton

Dot-Winners vs. Dot-Losers­­what works, what doesn't, and why With more dot-coms going bust every day, new-economy entrepreneurs and managers are scrambling for detailed information on what went wrong with the losers and how they can emulate the winners. DotBomb gives them the answers with a close look at a number of notable dot-com failures, comparing their experiences with those of several prominent dot-com successes.With the help of candid commentaries by staff members, venture capitalists, industry analysts, and market research, Sean Carton performs postmortems on Priceline, Living.com, PlanetRX, ValueAmerica, and other recent dot-com debacles and identifies the dot-pathologies that led to their demise. He also provides contrasting examples of successful companies that excel in that area, and he extracts powerful lessons on what managers can do to follow their examples.

Genres: Business

269 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2001

Reviews

[Inggita · Rating 3 out of 5]

comprehensive lesson learned from one of the worst economic bust - it's also the one i enjoy reading and talking about not only because of its proximity (it's happening in the 2000, i witnessed and even lived the internet boom) but also because this sobering lesson of business basics the author summarized here that the "New economy" ignores at the great expense (billions of $) of its subscribers - which are : know your customers, know the technology, and know how to link the two - is a great story.