Survival lessons from archives of dot-com era

Founder hopes his Web site will allow startups to ‘screw up in private’ before seeking investors

By Leslie Berlin / The Bulletin
December 2, 2008

In 2002, after the dot-com bubble burst, most people were trying hard to forget the preceding years of seemingly irrational entrepreneurial exuberance. But not David Kirsch.

Kirsch, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, saw a way to ensure that the next....

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