University to set up archive of bust dot com company business plans

Posted on 1 Oct 2004 at 09:52

Budding entrepreneurs and historians of the future will be able to look back on the madness of the dot com boom. The University of Maryland has received government and private grants to archive the business and marketing plans of those companies launched between 1996 and 2002 that thought having a domain name and venture capital backing meant they could retire at 25.

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has been given a grant of $235,000 from the Library of Congress to archive the business, marketing and technical plans from more than 2,000 mostly failed but some successful Internet startups. The aim is not only to show where so many companies went wrong but also to point out where some start-ups got it right.

You can view the archive at http://businessplanarchive.org/

Now, excuse us while we dust off our plan for the cat litter home delivery website.

Author: Steve Malone

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