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Dot.Bomb: The Inside Story of the First Dot.Com Crash: My Days and Night at an Internet Goliath (original 2001; edition 2001)

by David Kuo (Author)

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ValueAmerica.com was supposed to do for e-commerce what Wal-Mart did for retail - blow the competition out of the water. Entire multinational retail corporations were supposed to fall to the ultimate one-stop-shop on the web. Led by Craig Winn, a true marketing genius, the company was a dot-com pioneer backed by power players like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and FedEx chairman Fred Smith. But it didn't happen. In less than a year the share price had crashed and the company had haemorrhaged over $200 million. This is the inside story of e-commerce's greatest debacle to date - a cautionary tale of corporate over-reaching.… (more)
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Title:Dot.Bomb: The Inside Story of the First Dot.Com Crash: My Days and Night at an Internet Goliath
Authors:David Kuo (Author)
Info:Little, Brown (2001), Edition: First Printing, 320 pages
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A fascinating inside story of a dotcom that grew and collapsed. Moreso as I lived through two similar companies during 2000-2001 - one failing and one succeeding. Sad to hear that the author died of a brain tumour in 2013. ( )
  PhillipThomas | Jul 18, 2015 |
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ValueAmerica.com was supposed to do for e-commerce what Wal-Mart did for retail - blow the competition out of the water. Entire multinational retail corporations were supposed to fall to the ultimate one-stop-shop on the web. Led by Craig Winn, a true marketing genius, the company was a dot-com pioneer backed by power players like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and FedEx chairman Fred Smith. But it didn't happen. In less than a year the share price had crashed and the company had haemorrhaged over $200 million. This is the inside story of e-commerce's greatest debacle to date - a cautionary tale of corporate over-reaching.

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