- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (21 Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854109529
- ISBN-13: 978-1854109521
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,195,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, well written insiders guide to dot com Britian,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot.Com Britain (Hardcover)
Cellan-Jones spins a compelling yarn of the heady days of boom and bust in the British internet business. He's met all the people and introduces the us to them. At the end of the book you feel as if you've attended the First Tuesday meetings, sat in on the pitches to Venture Capitalists, been to the launch parties and seen the debt collectors march in.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A brilliant book, with few failings.,
By angus@iwantoneofthose.com (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot.Com Britain (Hardcover)
This is a great book. Most of this genre is heavily based on the American experience, this book is firmly set in Britain!With a classic reads like a novel style, the author goes way beyond simply quoting the press releases of the dotcoms. He has a genuine understanding of what went on and there are classic quotes from naïve company founders, dry software engineers, and frazzled marketers (the fur flys as the protagonists dish out blame and settle scores.) There are also great supporting characters, all well researched and developed. They include the E-commerce pioneers, the VC's, Investment Banks, Analysts, Retail Investors, Media, and even the Man In The Street, all get time centre stage. If you did participate in the dotcom goldrush you will enjoy this book. Even if you didn't it's still a good read for anyone interested in the revolution that promised so much, but who's real effect we won't know for some time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Britain's Dot Com Fever Revealled,
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This review is from: Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot.Com Britain (Hardcover)
For a couple of years, so-call 'dot com' fever landed on Britain's shores. The city money men went mad for anybody with an web-based idea: it was the future. By the middle of 2000, this future was collapsing in recriminations and losses. There do not appear to be many authors who address this from the British standpoint but BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones does just that and brings an interesting take on the events of those years.Watching the bubble grow and burst from his journalist viewpoint, Cellan-Jones saw the rise (and fall) of Boo, lastminute, Firebox and First Tuesday. With a little distance he is able to get some of the founders of those organisations to speak of the madness of those times. Dot Bomb is an interesting tale of new business where, almost to a person, the CEOs were under-forty with little or no experience running multi-million pound ventures. Cellan-Jones oberves that, in Britain, 'many of the people who leapt on the bandwagon had a headstart in life' and that they key skill was not the software - or even the idea - but 'it was the networking skills of the old establishment that flourished'. I'm not sure that the books really gets to what was happening behind the scenes and time has allowed people to find convincing reasons why events happened. It is, however, written by a journalist who was covering events at the time and witnessed some of the ups and downs at first hand. If you're fed up reading about entrepreneurs from the West Coast of the US and want to see how the 'dot com' money hit Britain then this is the book that, refreshingly, puts events into a British context.
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