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Summary: Better than the Funny Papers!
Review: I was fortunate enough to be the winner when it comes to many of these companies. No, I didn't buy stock. I cashed in on free cash, free products, electronics... all told, probably about $4,000 in stuff over 18 months. I love my free TiVo. Then the dot.com bombed.F'd Companies is hysterical, entertaining. A must-have for those involved in the "let's IPO and to hell with dotting the i's. It's already DOTTED" craze. The book is great for any F'd company employee (Arthur Anderson, Enron...). You just won't feel so bad knowing so many idiots failed before you.
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Summary: Oh, the humanity!
Review: Heart-touching to wade through the author's loving tribute to the brave souls who dared to dream of a world where the Internet could change everything. This gripping tale -- of the ntrepid entrepreneurs of the e-commerce boom, the venture capitalists who bravely funded them, and the many employees and small investors on whom they made a profound and lasting impact -- moved me to tears several times. This book announces the arrival of a major talent in New Journalism. As a prose stylist, Mr. Kaplan displays a depth, sensitivity, and I daresay, a poetic sensibility far beyond his 26 years. His stirring depictions of the heros of the dot-com boom is just the tonic for these troubled times. Buy this book: your newly-restored sense of wonder and joie de vivre will thank you.
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Summary: What Were These Companies Thinking??
Review: This book is based upon an ultra popular web site that chronicles the daily problems being experienced by dot.com companies. Every day there are new stories posted about one company or another laying off workers. The real popularity of this site comes from (a) The author who lends a great laid-back writing style (short and brutally to the point) and (b) Other users who leave sometimes blistering comments in what is called the Happy Fun Slander Corner. If you've been wondering what insiders and skeptics think about he last 2 years of dot.com crashes - buy this book. The book itself is broken down into many chapters. Each one covers a specific company and has 4 or 5 paragraphs about what went wrong and how silly the concept of the company was to start with. Shipping 50lb bags of dog food and door-to-door delivery of $1 candy bars stand out as two classic "what were they thinking" company ideas. This is a quick read with short chapters. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Beyond the hype. a realistic view at the dot com reality
Review: Mr. Kaplan has nailed this time in the history of our economy, and our pompus views of how technology would change us forever. Take it from someone who lived this life, died and has since re-vived the possibilities of e-commerce and other Internet technologies, this is the truth as it needed to be told. Thanks Phil for your candor. May we all learn from this experience. A wise man learns from his own mistakes, the wiser man learns from others mistakes. Let's be the wiser man and grow from the experience.
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Summary: Ouch! You'll larf til it huts!
Review: Been there done that! Ouch... I learnt the hard way it's no fun being at a F'd company at the end. However they were great days while it lasted! Shares spiking; brokers all over you and nowhere near a profit did we get. We were even told that the secret to success was to make a loss and that the bigger the loss the greater the share price. True! I missed the 60's drug induced crazy days but I'm glad I experienced the 90's net induced crazy ways! Read this book and laugh! It's just a shame that there isn't an archive of F'd site home pages on the net...
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Summary: Pud's a lamer, but the book is solid
Review: After following the progress of this website, I eagerly awaited this book and don't have many complaints with anything besides the fact that the hard-cover format makes the book easy to break in the spine with casual reading. Fortunately the content in the book is pretty solid, with obvious plusses being the websites that we all knew were going to fail having finally fallen to the wayside. I'd urge future company CEOs to check this out, so that they might not crash and burn in as fiery a death as Beenz, Webvan, Pets.com, or my personal favorite, The Industry Standard.
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Summary: Great!
Review: If you love the website, you'll love the book. Beyond just listing the site like the website does, Kaplan gives a bit of the history and business model of each company. Highly recommended.
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Summary: If you like the daily Fs....
Review: Then this is the book for you. Same insider feel and pud-ish humor as the site and sporadic emails but even more of the behind the scenes scoop. Too bad the F'd .coms didn't have a marketing plan as good as this book and all the other FC spin offs.
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Summary: Hunter Thompsons Cabana Boy writes a book
Review: A lazy mans Journey through the elephants graveyard of Dot-bombs, guided by an annoying self promoting New Yorker. Old news ho hum......
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Summary: what a loser--packed full of useless information
Review: I'm embarassed I bought this book. It's written poorly, and there's useless information.
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