Child's Play.(a look at failed dot coms)
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by ANDERSEN, M.J.
AMERICANS MAY BE FIXATED on success, but few things are as interesting as failure. Since last year's market crash, expired dot-com start-ups have claimed a fat chapter in the national treasury of cautionary tales. Two engaging documentaries, Startup.com and e-dreams, catalog the grim particulars, for the most part allowing us to tease out the moral of the story (if any) for ourselves.
Startup.com follows along as two close friends, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, launch an Internet service at www.govworks.com that is designed to help cut government red tape. Users of ...
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