The Primary Reason Most Dot-Com Businesses from the Late 1990s

question 76

Multiple Choice

The primary reason most dot-com businesses from the late 1990s are no longer in existence today is because they didn't:

• A)build a company that is Internet and brick-and-mortar based.
• B)develop IT systems capable of processing millions of transactions quickly.
• C)develop a path-to-profitability (P2P)plan.
• D)disperse risk amongst a group of investors.

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