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- IDG.net: How the Net Can Help Place 700,000 Chicken Wings
"Seeing an opportunity to leverage the Net, one or two startup operations have already set up Internet-based exchanges that aim to match up buyers and sellers around the globe keen to trade in branded excess inventory items." (8/11/00)
- Information Week: Get Ready For The Shakeout
"Lack of vision, strategy, and execution threaten exchanges." (6/12/00)
- New York Times: New Biz-to-Biz Marketplaces Are Turning to Old Hands for Help
"The kid with the nose ring and crazy hair may do well in our research labs, but he's not going to allay those fears on the manufacturing floor." (5/1/00) Free registration required.
- Red Herring: Revenge of the Bricks
"In the eyes of stakeholders, massive new B2B exchanges being formed by traditional industries are the...greatest creation since Henry Ford invented the assembly line... (M)ost of them haven't gotten far beyond the press release stage." (8/00)
- TechWeb: Who's Using Exchanges?
"Ideally, exchanges should bring buyers better prices and better access to products, and bring sellers better opportunities to sell the same. But it's not working out that way, at least so far." (2/01)
- TheStreet.com: Gross or Net? Bean Counting Gets Harder at B2Bs
"New guidelines drafted by an arm of the Financial Accounting Standards Board will give B2B companies a lot of leeway in determining how to report their numbers. And that means investors will have to be extra careful..." (8/10/00)
- Upside Today: Special report: To B-to-B, or Not to B-to-B?
"In this special report, UPSIDE explores the B2B phenomenon and its ramifications on the New Economy." Includes "profiles of the companies leading the charge, interviews with industry leaders and investors, predictions and a buzzword glossary" (7/20/00)
- WebBusiness: The Bigger They are, the Harder They Bargain
"With venture capital drying up in the B2B space, and bricks-and-mortar companies increasingly prepared to take on the dotcoms at their own game, e-marketplaces must achieve liquidity fast in order to thrive." (12/00)
- WSJ.com: eBricks, Gen-X Brainchild, Faces Off With Construction-Industry Barons
"In the year since eBricks emerged from Harvard's leafy campus, the Old Economy system that the start-up aimed to reorganize has proved more robust than first seemed."(4/12/00) Premium subscription required.
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