Here’s my latest BusinessWeek column. It started out as a blog post but got longer and longer so I transformed it into a column instead. It’s about how the publishing industry needs to be as transformed by Web 2.0 (aka community, interaction, marketing) as it was by Web 1.0 (aka transactions) if it wants to [...]
I Want Sarah to Visit:
The captivating story of the mavericks who emerged from the dotcom rubble to found the multi-billion-dollar companies taking the Web into the 21st century.
Everyone has heard the story of the Internet Bubble. Beginning with Netscape's blockbuster IPO in 1996, billions of dollars flowed into Internet startups, and companies with no revenues and shaky business plans earned sky-high valuations on Wall Street. It was the era of paper millionaires, $800 office chairs, and Super Bowl ads for dotcoms that no one had ever heard of. Then in 2000 the Bubble burst, with the Nasdaq losing 75% of its value and hundreds of companies closing up shop. It was all written off to "irrational exuberance," and everyone moved on. Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good is the story of the entrepreneurs who never gave up on the Internet dream.
"Sarah Lacy's very readable book pulls back the veil from the new princes of Web 2.0, and that it is as much about attitude as it is about business."
ANDY KESSLER AUTHOR OF RUNNING MONEY, WALL STREET MEAT, THE END OF MEDICINE
SARAH'S ARCHIVES
August 24th, 2008
Valley Girl: Saving the Publishing Industry One Column at a Time
August 20th, 2008
6% Can Be a Lot More Than You Think
Earlier this week, Paisano created quite a stir with his review of Y Combinator’s demo day. It certainly shocked me, as I thought it was a pretty balanced piece. He gave Y Combinator credit for a lot of Web innovation while bringing up the fact that no big homeruns have come out of the incubator [...]
August 20th, 2008
UGBT: See You in Seattle Tonight?
August 19th, 2008
Is this the Recession’s Other Shoe?
August 18th, 2008
Muxtape RIP? Noooooooooooooooooooo
August 18th, 2008
Props to My Co-Host
August 18th, 2008
Oh, Wait, Katie Couric Actually WAS Wearing a Digg Shirt on YouTube?
August 18th, 2008
UGBT: Seattle, Portland Fun Coming Soon
August 18th, 2008
Two of the Coolest Things I’ve Seen in a While
August 17th, 2008
American Startup: Demo Day Summer 2008
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SARAH LACY has reported on startups and venture capital in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade. She writes Valley Girl, a biweekly column for BusinessWeek and co-hosts Tech Ticker on Yahoo! Finance. She lives in San Francisco.
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