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Here comes the ethanol bubble
That dot-com boom feeling all over again: The renewable energy gold rush.
Silicon Valley is the best place ever in the whole world
Inspired by Google, the high-tech capital's boosters have decided that it's boring to be pessimistic.
Why Google shouldn't go public
Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page believe they can thwart the greed of shortsighted Wall Street, but there's always a price to pay.
Pols and CEOs gorge at the IPO feast
It's time to impose new rules on the rich man's Shangri-la.
Dumb, dumber and theglobe.com
A memoir by whiz kid turned dot-com refugee Stephan Paternot is as silly as the company he founded.
Dottie Downturn's trauma
Nostalgia for the glory years, or post-dot-com downturn disorder? Whatever the case, Salon's new-economy etiquette arbiter clearly needs help.
Vibrators on the stock exchange
Sex-toy firm has high hopes for Australian IPO.
Failing is fun!
Did your start-up go bankrupt? Are you out of a job? A new Web site will help you network with other dot-com failures.
After the fall
Executives at Women.com, VA Linux, Productopia and others forge a path into post-market correction Silicon Valley.
The insta-business plan re-strategizer!
The market is skittish and IPOs are being postponed: Time to rejigger your B-plan! Our foolproof guide shows you the way.
Can't buy Linux love
The stumbles of a Kleiner Perkins-funded Linux start-up prove that money isn't everything in the world of free software.
Can Linux billionaires carry the free-software torch?
As dot-com mania sends shares in open-source companies soaring, the movement searches its soul.
Letters to the Editor
Would Jimmy Swaggart's God forbid sex? Plus: Merger rumors behind hot VA Linux IPO; reducing Russia to vodka-swilling stereotype.
All tech, all the time
Going e-postal and other tales of the technological revolution. Plus: Blood-spurting penises and mushrooming: adventure sport for the elite?
Dissecting the VA Linux IPO
Its stock soared 698 percent on opening day -- but does that mean investors really believe it's got a gilded future?
Dot-com dogs
With Net-stock fever showing no signs of cooling, mediocre IPOs are growing as plentiful as fleas on a stray hound.
Jim Clark
In Silicon Valley -- where newness is next to godliness -- the smart money still bets on capitalism's most successful conceptual artist.
The Hollywoodization of venture capital
The business of funding tech companies has gone gaga for brand names and boffo deals. "Visionaries," though, may be out of luck.
Letters to the Editor
You think the media's money fixation is new? Plus: Remembering George C. Scott; what does Salon have against organized religion?
Linux at the bat
Red Hat's Marc Ewing steps up to the plate against Microsoft in the billion-dollar free-software ballgame.
Media money fixation
Another day, another IPO, another media lament on how today's Silicon Valley is all about greed, greed, greed.
Memo to an insta-millionaire
Congratulations! As Webvan's new CEO you're a winner at stock-option Monopoly: Just pass "Go" and collect millions!
Pat McGovern's "Technology Publishing for Dummies"
How did IDG's chairman build a $2.35 billion business?
Slashdot goes quiet
Can one muzzle the "News for Nerds" site? Probably not -- but its parent company has entered the quiet period, preparing for an IPO.
Jupiter shoots for the moon
The market research firm has always said the Net would be big. Now it's big enough to launch Jupiter on a bid to go public.
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