You Suck!(how entrepreneurs are perceived since many dotcom businesses have failed)
From: Entrepreneur
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Date: 7/1/2001
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Author: PRATHER, MICHELLE
DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY: THAT'S JUST POST-DOTCOM BACKLASH TALKING. OR IS IT?
IN 1998, A YOUNG eBay announced it had exceeded 21 million bids, 3-year-old Amazon.com proclaimed $610 million in sales and every wannabe billionaire on the block wanted a shot at being the next Net icon. Suddenly, the guy down the street who scores Cubans was selling them online. Entrepreneur "impostors" were everywhere--in it for the quick buck and the big hit rather than the passion of running a ...
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