Show of hands: who here worked for a dot-bomb?

[tanz]

Anyone remember the Value America coupons? I remember it to be like $100 off a $200 purchase? I got a 17" Viewsonic CRT that was like $250 for like $120 or something ridiculous.

 

[jmgonzalez]

Originally posted by: tanz
Anyone remember the Value America coupons? I remember it to be like $100 off a $200 purchase? I got a 17" Viewsonic CRT that was like $250 for like $120 or something ridiculous.

Toshiba DVD player that retailed for $250, bought it for $100.

THose were the days....

 

[habib89]

yah.. we raped value america.. i hold anandtech for taking down that company.. i took my part.. bought myself 3 dvd players and a monitor.. took pets.com for their money too.. those $10 off $10 were too tempting

 

[DaveSimmons]

I did some freelance coding and InstallShield work for Invenna, a dot-gone that sold an auction manager for eBay.

They and Respondus both wanted me to come on full-time, about when bSquare offered me an interview. I think I made the right choice of the 3 🙂

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
top 10 dot-bombs

ahh...good old webvan....or as us insiders like to call it..."wasvan" 😀

I didn't work for a dot bomb, but I do work for the company that took over Webvan's main building here in the Bay Area (Oakland). It's crazy how much left over Webvan stuff there still is there.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
top 10 dot-bombs

ahh...good old webvan....or as us insiders like to call it..."wasvan" 😀

I didn't work for a dot bomb, but I do work for the company that took over Webvan's main building here in the Bay Area (Oakland). It's crazy how much left over Webvan stuff there still is there.

Waht kind of stuff? I still see the trucks, with the logo half-painted-over floating around Chicago.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: keeleysam

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
top 10 dot-bombs

ahh...good old webvan....or as us insiders like to call it..."wasvan" 😀

I didn't work for a dot bomb, but I do work for the company that took over Webvan's main building here in the Bay Area (Oakland). It's crazy how much left over Webvan stuff there still is there.

Waht kind of stuff? I still see the trucks, with the logo half-painted-over floating around Chicago.

Everything. Ovens, grills, bins, radios, computers, servers, UPS backups, phones, software, shirts, paper, office supplies. You name it, it was left behind. It's like they just deserted the place.

 

[BlackAdam]

No, but my dad owned a bunch of Webvan stock... idiot...

 

[Miramonti]

What would be the top 10 dot.com bubble-era success stories?

 

[rufruf44]

Originally posted by: jjsole
What would be the top 10 dot.com bubble-era success stories?

Amazon & Ebay surely will be in that list.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: jjsole
What would be the top 10 dot.com bubble-era success stories?

Depends on how you gauge it, from an investors perspective, traffic, revenue... etc.

I founded a .com. It's still successful and operating.

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
I did a project for #10: GovWorks (Didn't actually work for them)

Think I still have the T-Shirt somewhere

Did you watch the movie Startup.com? I watched that as part of a technology entrepreneurship class. It was very amusing to watch.

 

[Drakkon]

I worked for one called insuideguide/collegeclub/snowball...made some pretty decent money and shwag for a freshman in college...i think i got like 5K over 1 year and all i did was create a couple pages, review my school, and put up flyers around campus 😀

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Reel

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
I did a project for #10: GovWorks (Didn't actually work for them)

Think I still have the T-Shirt somewhere

Did you watch the movie Startup.com? I watched that as part of a technology entrepreneurship class. It was very amusing to watch.

It was a pretty accurate film about the dot com experience. If I saw my business partner today I'd beat him without mercy. I guess those two are still friends, however.

 

[cherrytwist]

*raises hand*

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
I kind of wish I could buy my groceries on the intraweb. It would allow me to spend even more time in my dank cave, away from the harsh yellow face that burns us.

I'd probably go for it. Natural light = bad

 

[chowderhead]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: Reel

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
I did a project for #10: GovWorks (Didn't actually work for them)

Think I still have the T-Shirt somewhere

Did you watch the movie Startup.com? I watched that as part of a technology entrepreneurship class. It was very amusing to watch.

It was a pretty accurate film about the dot com experience. If I saw my business partner today I'd beat him without mercy. I guess those two are still friends, however.

kozmo.com also had a documentary done about it.
e-dreams
All these companies were so cocky and had terrible business models looking back. It is amazing that some did make it though and some came back in other forms.
Value America has got to be on the list. They had Paul Allen and other VC on the hook for more than 90 million dollars!!
Even Paul Allen hits investing headwinds

still, he probably did ok with his other investments i.e. television, entertainment, etc.

 

[KokomoGSTmp]

I worked for the now-acquired Medscape.com... laid off before company desperately sold itself to WebMD.

I'm sure old fellow AT Hot Dealers (Rossman & co) remember ValueAmerica. The uberintarweb hot deal!

EDIT: Mercata was a pretty big hot deal at the time too... got my very first DVD player through that. Those were the days for Hot Deals...

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
Should ask who here owned a dot.bomb. 🙂 I'm sure there's a few around here.

😱🙁

 

[Al Neri]

worked for K2Digital "business solutions" as an intern 1999-2000, neighbor worked as a graphic designer making $75,000 with no experience.

I started at 10$ p/h, up to 22$ right before the company went belly up