How Our Great Idea Died - Sort Of....

As a "dot com" survivor, one who was involved in it even before the term was coined, I've always had a bone to pick whenever I read/heard stories about how or why the bust occurred - mostly from Monday morning, armchair quarterbacks.

Some of it is true, but doesn't apply to all. So when I read the Inc.com article "How to Kill A Great Idea" , I had an immediate connection.

It's not exactly how things happened at i-Escrow (yes, that was the great idea I was part of), and worse, I wasn't in the same seat of power as Jonathan Abrams, the founder of Friendster, and the focus of the article, so I had no "personal exit strategy" to speak of. But it serves as a great story for those who thought, and continue to think, that it was all because of, inexperience, abuse and can all be blamed on youth and passion. If you're passionate about technology, and have that entrepreneur fire within you, you deserve to read it.