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Starving to Death on $200 Million

Host Bob Edwards talks to James Ledbetter, about the rise and fall of the Internet magazine, Industry Standard. In his book, Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year, Ledbetter relates how the publication benefited from the dot-com boom and then went bust, likely so many other companies. (Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of the Industry Standard is published by Public Affairs; ISBN: 1586481290)

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