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The Junglee man's back with Webaroo

ndouglas · 03/22/06 01:49PM

Rakesh Mathur is back in town. The Junglee co-founder sold to Amazon in '98 after doing the "Let's buy Google, oops, let's merge with Google" circuit (just like Kosmix).

Acquicor: Hat seeks cattle

ndouglas · 03/17/06 10:59AM

Empty holding companies go public all the time — the recently IPO'd company run by three Apple ex-execs is nothing special. But it just feels so bubbly to read:

Silicon Alley is edgy

ndouglas · 03/13/06 01:35PM

Silicon Alley is back, decided the New York Times, and it's edgy. To prove it, the Times opens with the story of a dot-com poetry slam where one schlub fails to impress:

Bubble 2.0: The best ideas are those that failed

ndouglas · 01/31/06 03:13PM

Whatever "Web 2.0" is supposed to mean, it comes down to one thing: Every business plan from the first dot-com bubble is back. Wired Magazine found a Mayfield VC who's perfecting the art of refurbished ideas. Allen Morgan went so far as to hire a 24-year-old to flip through old magazines for business ideas.

Return of the living dead

ndouglas · 01/30/06 07:08PM

Allen Morgan, meet your perfect idea-recycling resource. Business 2.0's Om Malik points out a useful list of dot-com ideas — all of which are now ghost sites, enshrined in the Museum of E-Failure. Check out Adcritic.com, which feels (but doesn't look, thankfully) like today's Adrants or AdLand. Or boo.com, which — wait — no, that one's coming back from the dead. Incidentally, is that girl on Boo.com supposed to look like an extra from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?