Net boom/bust

In 1999-2000, there was a huge boom in Internet stuff. This has now bust, but there was some interesting stuff there. Here's some links to the former glories...

Venture capitalists

• Yahoo directory
• 3i (see also Gerald Brady)
• Apax (backed www.exchange.co.uk)
• Atlas Venture (backed www.clickmango.com and www.confetti.co.uk)
• Arts Alliance
• Botts & Co (backed www.confetti.co.uk)
• Crescendo Ventures (see also Roeland Boonstoppel)
• Durlacher (backed www.exchange.co.uk)
• eVentures (see also Rupert Murdoch)
• Europ@web (see also Bernard Arnault: backed www.deckchair.com)
• Harvey Goldsmith (backed www.deckchair.com)
• London Business School (backed www.iglu.com)
• Lord Rothschild (backed www.clickmango.com)
• NatWest, Barclays (backed www.netstore.com)
• New Media Investors (aka NewMedia ventures?)
• Net Names (wanted to be a VC: did it?)
• Prince's Trust (backed Dylan Wilk's company ICE)
• RocketVC
• the Sieff family (backed www.deckchair.com)
• Top technology
• Venture Capital association

Internet networking clubs

• Digital People
• Four Leaf
• First Tuesday
• Surf's Up
• Boobnight