Emerging from the ashes of the first dotcom boom were a number of companies you all still know and love today. From the US, there’s Amazon and eBay, while over the pond in the UK there’s LastMinute.com, a travel-centric startup that faced flotations and multi-million dollar investments at a time when the ‘internet economy’ elsewhere was imploding. These handful of success stories aside, in the years that followed the dotcom bust, one could’ve been excused for giving the Web-based startup scene a wide berth. The internet had become synonymous with half-baked ideas, opportunistic land-grabs and, with the benefit of hindsight,…
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