Since then, the rock star treatment has been extended to the darlings of the dot-com world. While many of my colleagues fawn over Twitter and Second Life, I have always wondered what happened to the first generation of dot-com pioneers. What happened to the once cutting-edge services? Did they all fold, or evolve into something else? What did the founders and management do wrong, and what did they do right? Where are the figures from that era?
When I started work at The Industry Standard earlier this year, I started to think about how this story could be covered, and thought back to the model established Q column. Why not follow a similar format for the early dot-coms? So, today we launched Where are they now? It took a lot of work, and I have to thank the two writers, David Cotriss and Mark Henricks, as well as several behind-the-scenes folks at The Industry Standard, for getting this off the ground. Here are the ten profiles:
- eToys
- Webvan
- Pets.com
- Boo
- TheGlobe.com
- Entertaindom
- Excite@Home
- Kozmo
- Garden.com
- DrKoop.com
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