The Fallout: We're Moving On Just Fine
What do you do when there's dotcom carnage all around you? Don't take it lying down, that's what.
By Karen E. Spaeder •
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I'm getting ready to sit down and watch the new filmStartup.com, a documentary about the life and death ofdotcoms during the Internet Gold Rush. I was going to wait until Ihad watched it to write this column, but as I sit herecontemplating the very existence of this film, I feel compelled towrite about something entirely different.
The fact that there is a movie-in fact,movies-about a time period in the very recent past isintriguing, to say the least. In fact, that time period isn'teven over; there are still dotcoms dying and dotcom workersclutching pink slips in their hands as they try to catch a cabhome. And the entrepreneurs who caught severe strains of start-uphubris and get-rich-quick fever are still shaking their heads andwiping the sweat from their brows following their long day'sjourney into night.
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