#14 In its prospectus, Buy.com unveils history's most elegant business model: "We sell a substantial portion of our products at very low prices. As a result, we have extremely low and sometimes negative gross margins on our product sales."
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>> #6 Medicine Online launches its innovative new site, Bidforsurgery.com, in March 2000, allowing users to solicit bids on procedures such as tummy tucks, liposuction, and "phalloplasty (penile enlargement)." The site now promises that it will soon offer users the opportunity to name their own price for fertility services.
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#8 With prescience rivaling that of Piecyk, iVillage founder and CEO Candice Carpenter tells Fast Company in February 1998, "There isn't an Internet company in the world that's going to fail because of mistakes -- Internet
companies make thousands of mistakes every week."
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posted on April 14, 2001 01:13:14 PM
# 13 Melanie Griffith, the star of Crazy in Alabama and the founder of MelanieGriffith.com, tells Paper Magazine, "I don't care if people think I'm a dumb blond or stupid or an overage actress or over the hill. I don't care because I'm gonna have a very successful Internet company, and I'm gonna have $100 million in the bank and I don't really give a #*!@ what anybody thinks!" VeryModern Space Junk
