- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (19 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743228626
- ISBN-13: 978-0743228626
- Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 544,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A 'Darwin Awards' for the digital age, a hilarious chronicle of dot-com mania and disaster from the Internet folk hero and fuckedupcompany.com creator, Phil Kaplan. Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan - no problem. You could still get 40 million dollars from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then, around April 2000, it all came crashing down. Phil Kaplan was a dot-com everyman, a programmer, with a bird's-eye view of the erupting bubble. In early 2000 he started fuckedcompany.com, a caustic and sceptical site which follows the layoffs and bankruptcies of hundreds of dot-coms. The site was an instant success. It was named site of the year by Rolling Stone, Time and Yahoo!, and received more than four million unique visitors a month. F'D COMPANIES captures the waste, greed and human stupidity of over 200 dot-com failures. Written in Kaplan's popular and cynical style, the company profiles in the book form a gleeful encyclopeadia of how not to run a business. They also capture a remarkable period of history.
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Philip Kaplan is the president of PK Interactive, an e-commerce solutions firm. He lives in New York City and can be seen playing drums in smoky heavy metal clubs around town.
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Finally some sanity!,
By Jon Lawrence (London UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: F'D Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts (Hardcover)
As expected, Kaplan's approach to the venture capital-induced madness that subsumed the 'internet industry' is the same hilariously straightforward cynical analysis that gave his website instant cult status. I couldn't put the book down and laughed out loud at least once every two pages.A work of literature it is not, but if you have any interest in the 'internet bubble' and always suspected that the whole thing was a massive joke, then this is a definite must-read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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OK as far as it goes....,
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This review is from: F'D Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts (Hardcover)
.....but it doesn't go very far. Perhaps fewer dot com examples of disasters with much more detail or a much longer book.
It was a bit like snacking on junk food all day, by the evening you have a desire for a decent meal or in the case of this book an overwhelming urge for more information. Nonetheless an amusing read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Biting yet very funny,
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This review is from: F'D Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts (Hardcover)
A very funny book on the insanity of the so-called new economy. The author lists the various companies that were involved (and mostly ended up bust) with a short synopsis on what happened. A little short on detail but a bitingly funny read nonetheless. Definitely worth reading.
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