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  • From: "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] British Fasion site that went belly up 6m before GoLive - anyone remember the name?
  • Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:01:10 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, anilorac wrote:
->
->The company garnered a bit of notoriety (like BuildNet) b/c it burned
->through an immense amount of capital, and ran out of money about 6 months
->before launch.
->
->They wound up spending all their capital on promotion, so it was a very
->public flop.
->
->Anyone remember the name of this company and site?

there was boo.com - is that what you're thinking of?

cheers
KJ

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