“Historians will be able to look back 200 years from now and read the original proposal for Boo.com or Kozmo.com or eToys.com and hear audio histories from executives and worker bees from the companies. Ideally, future students and business leaders will learn something from the mistakes that were made.” – Shannon Henry, Washington Post, June 27.
The TeleRead take: A much-needed project–from David Kirsch, an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. No conflict with the valuable Internet Archive, which focuses on the preservation of actual Web pages. Perhaps by learning from the past debacles, we can avoid another @Home or–within the telecom area–WorldCom.
