Anatomy Of A Failed Canadian Dot Com Startup

from the sounds-familiar dept

Well, there are plenty of these stories out there these days: the ex-employee of a dot com tells the inside story. This one happens to take place in Canada (what is it with these Canadians and Techdirt these days?), but the story is the same as most people who worked at a failed dot come have. It's amusing, though, if you haven't already heard the story (or lived it) 30 or 40 times before.
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    Ryan, 16 Oct 2000 @ 11:52am

    School of hard knocks

    umm... yeah the living it isn't for everyone but I guess you have to have the stomach for it. The interesting thing is how much you actually learn from a company that's going down (or reinventing itself). I'd recommend it for anyone that wants to toughen up on the business front.

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