Dotcom Business Plan Archive Open for Business

prostoalex writes "The next time you launch a huge online enterprise designed to cash out on Nasdaq IPO, it might be worth to check the Dotcom Business Plan Archive, MSNBC warns. David A. Kirsch, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, is collecting dotcom business plans and stories about creative destruction. Alas, both archives require free registration. There have been other attempts at creating such a collection."

Also known as...

[Anonymous Coward]

Fucked Company [fuckedcompany.com].

damn registration

[applegoddess]

http://bugmenot.com/ [bugmenot.com]

Re:ohhh, I've got one.

[jgalun]

You're a moron:

A) Microsoft didn't buy an old broadcast network. Microsoft doesn't own NBC, they partnered with NBC. Big difference.

B) If Microsoft was really bothered by Slate recommending Firefox, they would have tightened their control over an operation that they wholly owned. Selling it - so that it has even more freedom to criticize you - makes no sense in those circumstances. I thought we were supposed to be afraid of corporations controlling the media - not afraid of corporations selling their control of the media!

They are only collecting plans at this point

[gtrubetskoy]

I've signed up and have yet to come across any business plans, though there are some more or less intriguing docs like photographs of marketing trinkets.

Re:The dotcoms did not fail....

[vidarh]

While many VC's did catastrophic investments, most of them are VERY good at protecting their investments from ending in the founders pockets until they've sold out, or the company has gone public. I'm sure a portion of dot-com founders that burned their VC's badly still managed to get out with lots of cash, particularly for companies that survived until some time after an IPO, but the majority likely were stuck with peanuts.