{"id":874,"date":"2001-04-27T04:04:17","date_gmt":"2001-04-27T04:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/04\/27\/random-dotcom-thoughts-show-me-the-money\/"},"modified":"2001-04-27T04:04:17","modified_gmt":"2001-04-27T04:04:17","slug":"random-dotcom-thoughts-show-me-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/04\/27\/random-dotcom-thoughts-show-me-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"random dotcom thoughts – show me the money!"},"content":{"rendered":"

random dotcom thoughts<\/u><\/b> – show me the money!<\/p>\n

How to fail at business without really trying<\/a>
\nis an amusing look into the life of a startup ‘dotcom’ firm. It’s over at kuro5hin.org<\/a>
\nand that almost always means it’s more interesting than most of the crap on the
\nnet. This guy makes some points that resonated with me … and I can certainly
\nsympathize. On the other hand – well, no offense but a look at the portfolio<\/a>
\nof the company<\/a>
\nin question leads me to see one of the reasons the Internet bust happened. The
\nwork simply wasn’t that good. Anyway, read the note and the comments.<\/p>\n

This Email thread cc’ed to all Modem Media employees<\/a>
\nis a fairly normal piece of wierdness int he Internet business world. What I
\nfind particularly amusing is that the uproar seems to be about whether or not
\nthe company did a bad thing seelling the domain vivid.com<\/a>
\nto Vivid Video, an adult production company. This reached such a peak that the
\nmanagement felt compelled to justify themselves by giving the money away.<\/i><\/p>\n

\n\n\n
"As a policy, Modem Media refuses to do work for
\n any adult entertainment sites on the Internet and have turned down a
\n number of business opportunities in the past and will continue to do so
\n in the future. We are donating 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the
\n domain name to several non-profit organizations, which include the
\n George Washington Carver Foundation of Norwalk, Connecticut, the
\n Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the United Negro College Fund."
\n – <\/i>full
\n text<\/i><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

random dotcom thoughts – show me the money! How to fail at business without really trying is an amusing look into the life of a startup ‘dotcom’ firm. It’s over at kuro5hin.org and that almost always means it’s more interesting than most of the crap on the net. This guy makes some points that resonated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}