Jamie Doward 

Dotcom disasters head for publishing success

Malmsten and Leander are not the only people to be cashing in on the dotcom demise. Several other high profile netheads are also baring their souls in print. These include:
  
  


Malmsten and Leander are not the only people to be cashing in on the dotcom demise. Several other high profile netheads are also baring their souls in print. These include:

F'd Companies by Philip Kaplan.
Kaplan was the brains behind www.FuckedCompany.com, the website which follows the fortunes of dying dotcom firms in the US. The site became so popular that Kaplan was able to start selling advertising space on it.

A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success and Reckoning by Stephen Paternot and Andrew Essex.
The book tells the story of how Paternot founded internet zine www.Theglobe.com, floated the firm, and then watched it lose 99.5 per cent of its value.

Dot.Bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath by David Kuo.
How www.Value America.com was hyped as the future of retailing only to go bust two years later.

 

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