Acker's vision of Blue292 seemed intoxicating to her backers. Susan is everything you want in an entrepreneur. She's building a great culture in the company, and she's the first to tell you what she doesn't know. It's rather infectious. She has experienced the pain of doing things the old way.
Egger says many dot-coms themselves lack industry depth.
If VCs were willing to gamble on dot-com business plans a few years ago, today it's no more Mr. Nice Guy. With more proof of what is a successful business plan and the Internet littered with dead start-ups, investor scrutiny is high. They haven't gotten market penetration. Valuations had gotten out of hand and had to come back to earth. Dot-coms hype how they value themselves.