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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Millions on the Internet

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You gotta remember that this book was written in 2000, right around the time the dotcom bubble burst. Of course you didn't have to be amazon or ebay to survive the bloodbath, as many small independent shopping sites have been doing quite well.

This book doesn't tell you how to come up with a good idea -- I doubt anyone can really tell you, since successful entrepreneurship is seeded totally on individual creativity. (Disclosure: I myself am still trying to come up with the mother of all "how come I didn't think of that" ideas.) It's more about how to set up an e-commerce site, but the information is already outdated now that four years have passed. Still, it could be an informative read if you are truly clueless about e-commerce.

Can gold still be found in the DotCom mines of the year 2000? Evidently so, but intrepid miners have to make some choices. Join somebody's team early on and hope for the best and perhaps find "founder" millions? Join late in the game but arrive at a decent long term career? Or go for broke and start you own start up and try to become the next Bill Gates? Okay, maybe try not to become so successful that the Gov't cuts your business in two, but maybe collect a few hundred million dollars in the process.

Stock options, bad internet biz ideas, and other pitfalls are cheerfully explained in this very well researched book. If you are getting just a little jealous about how you keep hearing that some goofball you went to high school with just made a few million at a DOTCOM, this book will give you both a reality check and a head start at the same time. That's no easy feat to pull off.

Plus, the jokes aren't too terrible.

Is this Rod Underhill related to Roy Underhill? I see they're credited together for writing quite a few books together. Even if I was married to this guy his book isn't very good. Maybe he should stick to woodworking.

Did you know that gullible was printed twice in the 1996 Merriam Webster dictionary?