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- BBC News: Investors Watch Dot.Com Clearout
"With share prices of technology firms plummeting, investors are reluctant to keep funding the costly fight for market share. As a result, the roadkill on the information super highway of e-commerce is piling up." (10/8/00)
- Bloomberg.com: A Few Lessons From the Internet Bust: Michael Lewis
"The financial world is suddenly rich in tragedy. People once worth billions are now worth millions; others, once worth millions, now are straining to make the payments on their Range Rovers." (12/7/00)
- CNET: Failed Dot-Coms May Be Selling Your Private Information
Some dot-com failures are resorting to selling information their customers may have thought would remain under lock and key as they scramble to find assets that can be sold to appease creditors. (6/29/00)
- InfoWorld: Dot-Com Failures Abound
"At least 130 Internet companies have shut down this year, with the pace quickening in recent months... Nearly 100 of the shutdowns involved companies that catered to the consumer market." (11/16/00)
- Inter@ctive Week: Online Liquidators Going for Broke
"As dot-coms go belly-up, they have to find a place to sell off remaining assets to pay off creditors." Rather than accept "pennies on the dollar" in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, they are turning to online auction services such as Bid4Assets.com. (8/21/00)
- Law.com: Layoffs@legal.com
"Legal dot-coms have been caught in the downturn roiling Internet stocks and companies. Like their better-known peers, they are laying off employees and cutting costs." (11/29/00)
- New York Times: Lessons From the Online Rubble
"(D)on't go into an online business selling things that are available from only a few suppliers or that come in only a few sizes or colors or that weigh a lot." Among other suggestions. Free registration required. (12/11/00)
- Startupfailures.com
Web-based community offering support and advice for failed tech entrepreneurs and employees cut loose from failed dotcom startups. Founded by Nick Hall, President, Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs.
- Upside: The Dot Com Graveyard
"In this online burial ground, UpsideToday pays homage to the spate of recently departed Internet companies -- and those who will soon be joining them."
- Webmergers.com
Marketplace for analysts and services for buyers and sellers of Web properties. Webmergers.com's knowledge base is a valuable asset for identifying M&A trends and for valuing Web companies.
- whytheyfailed.com
Recent initiative from Bathwick Research that looks at internet business failure, the causes of failure and how best to avoid it.
- Wired: Dot-Coms Do Bankruptcy Faster
"Dot-com companies may have proven a chaotic bet for investors. But for bankruptcy courts, they're providing some of the easiest cases to dispose of"...according to "the federal official who oversees bankruptcy cases in Silicon Valley." (9/28/00)
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