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The MouseDriver Insider: life at a startup.

Recession.
Daimler Chrysler slashes 26,000 jobs.
Disney cuts 400.
Amazon may have cut 20%.
It isn’t nice (1
2).
But dot-coms might still do well, since software, labour and real-estate
costs will start falling?

Investors are smart. Disney kills Go.com. Stock rises. Sega kills Dreamcast. Stock rises. Lesson: kill it if it won’t work.

Investor Guide: pretty good on news.

zeroTV: good TV-like entertainment for free. World Bank’s B-SPAN has World Bank seminars online. Yeah, the computer is becoming the TV.

Nasdaq will open in Bangalore.

Recession?
GM shuts 14 plants.
Boeing: 1 plant.
AMC: 548 theatres.
WorldCom lays of 10-15%.
HP: 2%.
Delphi & Visteon: 10,300.
Lucent: 10,000.
Sara Lee: 7,000.
JC Penney: 5,000.
AOL: 2,000.

An extraordinary animated spoof of Mohabbatein.

Brain map.

Consultants’ role this year will be to convert old economy companies into new economy ones. Old economy strategy consultants will gain.