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- CIO: Fall of the Ottoman Empire
"Furniture.com's demise provides an excellent opportunity to examine what can go wrong when you rest the success of your business on an industry that's never truly seen the black." (2/25/01)
- CNET: Etown Shuts Down
"Etown, which provided news and reviews about consumer electronics products...laid off its entire staff and shut down operations...one month after the San Francisco-based company's workers were scheduled to vote on union representation." (2/14/01)
- Computerworld: Sites Left Hanging as Web Host Folds
"Customers running their online retail operations in Pandesic Inc.'s hosting environment...were stunned to learn their application service provider was shutting down." Choose your ASP judiciously, analysts advise IT executives. (8/7/00)
- Darwin: How Does Your Garden Tank?
"Despite millions in venture capital and plenty of water, Garden.com couldn't survive the Internet's blight. Learn what went wrong from COO Jamie O'Neill." (8/01)
- E-Commerce Times: Mortgage.com To Close
"'In the final analysis, at this point, the online mortgage industry has not been able to demonstrate its ability to deliver cost-effective mortgage loans to consumers at a profit,'" said Chairman Seth Werner. (11/1/00)
- Gomez.com: Chipshot Headed to the Sandtrap in the Sky
"Chipshot and other golf sites do not receive the full support of equipment manufacturers, which is why the niche is destined to fail." Manufacturers feel customers "will be better fitted for clubs by an actual pro shop or golf store employee." (10/12/00)
- Inc.com: Obit: Cold Feet Squash Minority-Supplier Site
M-Xchange.com, a web market for the products and services of businesses owned by members of minority groups, shut down when its cofounders "developed cold feet about transaction fees as a source of revenues." (11/1/00)
- Information Week: AviationX Is Grounded
"AviationX seemed ready to take off. But potential customers turned into competitors... The financial community...refused to provide additional funding... And the company...underestimated the difficulty of developing sophisticated systems..." (7/17/00)
- Inter@ctive Week: When Toysmart Broke
"The three-year-old company became an Internet bygone this summer after...Walt Disney pulled the plug on additional funding. Weary VCs refused to save the day and hopes for a...public stock offering were dashed by a lagging tech stock market." (8/7/00)
- New York Times: Surviving Master, Pets.com Mascot Seeks New Home
"Pets.com has closed down, but the company, an online purveyor of pet information and supplies, still has at least one potentially valuable asset: Sock Puppet." Free registration required. (11/27/00)
- Newsbytes: Scour Files For Bankruptcy Protection
The company said it filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 "in order to ensure continued operation in the face of several lawsuits, and to allow it to continue evaluation of various strategic business alliances and alternatives." (10/13/00)
- Red Herring: CarOrder.com Runs out of Gas
"CarOrder.com's demise highlights just how difficult it is to make money selling cars online. While consumers disdain dealers, they also want to kick the tires before making such a big purchase." (8/21/00)
- Salon.com: DEN, Boo: R.I.P.
"These spectacular dot-com flameouts are lessons in bad thinking, not harbingers of industry-wide collapse." (5/19/00)
- SFGate: Gazoontite Ends Dot-Com Portion Of Its Operation
Gazoontite.com, which sells to allergy and asthma sufferers, filed for bankruptcy protection. Its retail stores are doing well but the online component "went through more than $25 million...and ran into trouble raising additional capital." (10/10/00)
- Silicon Alley News: UBO.com Shuts Down
"Amidst threats to pursue legal action against a Texas-based investment group which pulled out of last-gasp funding round, UBO.net joined the growing list of dot-coms shuttering operations." (11/2/00)
- Soundbitten: It Takes Courage to Build Legendary Businesses...
"How Scient helped Verde.com go from launch to bankruptcy in less than 60 days." (10/02/00)
- TheStandard.com: And Now the Big Bankruptcy
"TheBigStore.com was to be Robert McNulty's next big thing. But one year out, the company is on its deathbed. What happened?... At the end of July, the company was forced into...bankruptcy..." by three of its major suppliers. (9/11/00)
- Wired: Green Site Short on Greenbacks
"Verde Media, a website catering to environmentally minded Americans that launched just two months ago, is already suffering from the same malady that has affected a number of other Net content companies in recent months." (6/20/00)
- WSJ.com: Online Jewelry Seller Miadora Is Latest E-retailing Failure
"Like many dead dot-com businesses, Miadora initially appeared to be doing many things right... But the company also spent heavily on gimmicky marketing programs." (9/26/00) Premium subscription required.
- ZDNet: Paul Allen's Mercata.com To Close
"Mercata.com CEO Van Horn said Allen's investing arm, did participate in all three rounds of Mercata funding, but it wasn't willing to dip any deeper into Allen's pockets to rescue the firm." (1/4/01)
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