More articles by Lewis Perdue

Privacy Lawsuits Will Force VCs to Re-evaluate Profit Models
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published February 9, 2000
That user outrage you hear over Web privacy is going to force venture capitalists and the sites they fund into some seriously disruptive re-evaluation of profit models based on the use and sale of personal information.

Contentville.com: Old World Ethics Collide with New Media Profits
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published February 4, 2000
The flap over media watchdog Brill's Content getting into bed with the people they cover spotlights the latest collision between Old World ethics and new media profits and points out one area where the old has it all over the new

The Davos Conference: Really Stupid Internet Advice from Allegedly Smart People
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published February 2, 2000
The just-ended World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has been touted as the world's finest gathering of brains and power. But if the participants' assessments of "The 10 Web sites that will change the world" are any indication of their overall competency, then we may need our Y2K generators and spare food after all.

Where Are They Now?
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published January 27, 2000
The VC Watch editor describes what goes into the column selection and looks at how six companies have done since they were profiled.

Swimming Against An Offal Tide of FlackSpam
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published January 21, 2000
The whole Y2K non-event was a crushing disappointment to VC Watch which was praying for a reprieve from flacks.

Vstore: E-tailing for the Masses
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published January 18, 2000
In the new Internet economy, every user will be an e-tailer if Vstore.com and a rash of competitors have their way.

Newsletters.com Guides Dead-Tree Publishers Online
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published January 14, 2000
As the Internet rushes to make the sum of all human knowledge available at the click of a mouse, the dead-tree publishers of highly specialized, often very expensive newsletters have been left at the gate. Until now.

Of Wireless Webs and Talking Dogs
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published January 10, 2000
The wireless Web is a whole lot like a talking dog: you're so amazed it can say anything at all that you can almost forgive it for not having anything to say.

Popping the Euro-Corks Over 'Unfair Competition'
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published January 5, 2000
European online operations are a study in the past and that's where they're likely to stay unless they also decide to fight unfair just like the Americans.

S3 Gets Coal, Not Diamonds in eStocking
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published December 28, 1999
T'was the week after Christmas and all through the land...

Recourse Technologies: Roach Motel for Hackers
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published December 27, 1999
Think of ManTrap from Recourse Technologies as a roach motel where crackers hack in but they can't hack out.

Internet Griping in European Whine Country
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published December 17, 1999
That great whining noise from across the Atlantic is the crypto-existential mewling about how the Internet is dominated by the United States.

meVC.com Offers White-Knuckle VC Ride to the Masses
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published December 16, 1999
The Internet world's philosophy of trickle-down populism has spawned a new contestant -- meVC.com -- which aims at letting "the little guy" in on those juicy venture capital deals once open only to people with a net worth that rivals most Third World countries.

Some Web Turkeys for the Holiday Season
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published December 8, 1999
With Thanksgiving now just a dim memory of excess and indigestion, VC Watch nominates a crop of holiday turkeys which have a bad taste far more persistent than holiday leftovers.

Vstore: E-tailing for the Masses
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published November 23, 1999
In the new Internet economy, every user will be an e-tailer if Vstore.com and a rash of competitors have their way.

Dot.Com IPOs Maintain Escape Velocity, Set Market Records
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published November 18, 1999
Despite this year's Internet IPO slump, Dot.Com public offerings continue earning their reputation for instant escape velocity -- at least on the first day.

Trinity Ventures: Passion As a Strategic Plan
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published November 17, 1999
Can passion make sense as an investment strategy? Menlo Park's Trinity Ventures thinks so.

Wine.Com Turns Up e-Vintage Heat
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published November 12, 1999
About this time of the year, the cafes in Vienna and across the rest of Austria start serving a hot mulled red wine they call glühwein, which cuts through the chill and warms the insides in ways coffee only dreams about.

iMotors.Com: Giving Used Car Sales a Good Name
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published November 3, 1999
Buying a used car has always been a lot like a root canal without anesthesia. iMotors.com wants to change that.

E-Congo Aims to Make E-Commerce Friendly
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published October 29, 1999
eCongo wants to make e-commerce easy and free.

Essential.Com: An Alternative to Spam and Slam
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published October 27, 1999
Consumers who think that long-distance telemarketers and ISP spammers really have no good reason to live may soon find hope in a new breed of Internet service portals which want to simplify the confusion of deregulation by offering a single point of contact for purchasing essential services of all kinds

LoanWise.Com Aims to Deaden the Pain of Small Biz Loan Process
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published October 26, 1999
Most small businesses find the traditional bank loan process a painful, time-consuming, frustrating and frequently demeaning process that substantially diminishes the psychological rewards of entrepreneurship and can divert valuable resources from the task of actually making money. Loanwise.com aims to change that.

New D.C. Incubator Born; Onvia, Eve, Imandi Get Major Cash
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published October 18, 1999
The nation's capital is experiencing a baby boom of sorts -- in technology incubators that is.

China's Net Investment Policy: Good Partner or Suicide Bomber?
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published October 15, 1999
Today's Internet China watchers are nervously whistling past what they hope won't be an Asian investment graveyard following a top government official's bombshell that the government would enforce its ban on foreign investment in the sector.

Zero Knowledge Systems: Hacking a Path to Net Privacy
By Lewis Perdue |  Article Published October 14, 1999
There's no better example that one person's hack is another's privacy shelter than the fracas this past April between Intel and Zero Knowledge Systems.