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Let Us Now Praise Famous Dot-Com Skeptics

 

Wednesday
Adam Lashinsky on the State of the Internet
Dan Colarusso on Internet Growth Projections
Katherine Hobson on E-tailers' Push for Profitability
Catherine Valenti on Ailing Internet Funds
Jamie Heller on Using the Net to Track Net Stocks
Thursday
Tracy Byrnes on the Frenzy Next Time
George Mannes on Self-Hating Dot-Coms
K.C. Swanson on Old Economy Winners
David Gaffen on Measuring the Internet Economy
Friday
Ian McDonald on 'Butterfly' Companies
Justin Lahart on Real Net Valuations
Joe Bousquin on Building the Perfect Net Company
A Dan Gross Opinion Piece: Were the Old Guys Right?
TSC Roundtable on Predicting Six-Month Winners
Roland Jones on The Last Days of Daytrading
Eric Gillin on Working for a Dot-Com

In the past few years, most observers have uncritically asserted that the Internet would transform the way we work, manage and purchase. But not everybody believed that the neural network of routers, computers and glass fibers represented the greatest investment opportunity of all time.

Not surprisingly, those who failed to get on board were frequently consigned to irrelevance. Executives who refused to cannibalize their own businesses were relegated to the Old Economy scrapheap. Meanwhile, well-respected commentators who dared dash cold water on the new phenomenon were made to look like bitter old fuddy-duddies. ...

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