Word: coms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Although the event will feature mostly for-profit "dot-com" Internet companies, it will also include online "dot-org" service organizations, and even companies that are not technology- based...
Many of these "dot-com" companies, he says, have underdeveloped management teams and might benefit from employing students with a general liberal arts educations...
...Chinwe says that after her graduation this spring, she plans to give up the glamour altogether. As Chinwe muses over numerous job offers, she says that she will not miss the catwalk. iIim leaning towards McKinsey right now, but I am also working at a dot-com that got funding,i she says. In addition to her modeling career, Chinwe works part time for a consulting firm and assists entrepreneurs, the source of her real passion. iThe way I always look at things is to focus on what I want in my life, and how badly I want...
...have to admit that when the dot-com craze began, I too fit the mold: skeptical, skeptical, skeptical. Navigating Netscape is one thing, but programming techniques like C++ and Java make my skin crawl, much to the amusement of friends TF'ing CS50 who speak and think the language of code in the bowels of the Science Center. Steve Martin, in Father of the Bride, had my original attitude pegged exactly when he described his future son-in-law's job as an independent computer consultant: He said it was "code for 'unemployed.'" It just didn't seem possible that...
...lots of people shopped online in 1998. Quite a few did even in 1997. But it wasn't until the final months of 1999 that transaction by mouse shed its novelty status and "dot-com" became part of the consumer lexicon...