Dot.Com Peace Plan

The other day I mentioned Jason Alexander's sitcom actor Middle East peace plan, aka George Costanza's Peace Plan About Nothing.

Now that I've seen the sponsoring organization's website -- http://www.silentnolonger.org/ -- I realize it's the "Dot.Com Peace Plan", as it has all the elements of one of those fluffy and unsustainable dot.com bubble companies ca. 1999 -- e.g.
(1)an overachieving founder with an impressive resume in unrelated areas but little understanding of the target customer and no other essential qualifications to succeed in the task at hand

(2) a business plan that has no basis in reality

(3) an insane belief that Internet technology will solve an age-old problem

(4) an overdesigned website that has Flash animation but doesn't otherwise work very well

(5) a window-dressing advisory board and an executive team which they formally call the "The Team",

(6) a list of strategic "partners" who don't add any value

and

(7) at best polite comments, but few real-world customers who are actually buying.

Also like the 1999 dot.coms the Dot.Com Peace Plan has convinced itself that it has strategic alliances with entities that are really competitors, and who really are only looking for a hostile takeover. Should the Dot Com Peace Plan ever be seriously funded, it would do like most of the 1999 dot.coms and turn into another "Dot Bomb". And Israel would end up on fuckedcountry.com

UPDATE: I discover that not all of the above links into the Dot.Com Peace Plan web site bring up the pages that they were meant to. See ( 4) above.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 28, 2004 12:45 PM