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Wisconsin Letters
Occasionally On Wisconsin receives letters that
are too long to publish in full. Sarah Town's response
to "Dot-com Survivors" was one such letter. Her full
text, and the other responses to that article, are
included here.
Sarah
Town '96
Brian
Hale '81, MBA'87
Darren Bush '88
I
beg you, in the name of all that's decent, to stop
using the phrase "dot-com survivor." Funny how a person
who starts a virtual business and fails is a survivor,
while a person who starts a bricks-and-motor storefront
and fails is, well, a failure. Perhaps what the dot-com
survivors are best at is marketing themselves as such.
Not
that there's anything wrong with failure - my numerous
failures have taught me a lot more about the world
than my occasional successes. And there's the problem
- people who are too arrogant to have admitted failure
are doomed to "survive" again.
If
you want to give equal exposure to other survivors,
I suggest a visit to the University Comprehensive
Cancer Center or take a drive to one of the many century-old
dairy farms in and around Dane County. Here you'll
find survivors in the truest sense of the word.
Darren
Bush '88
Madison
Sarah
Town '96
Brian
Hale '81, MBA'87
Darren Bush '88
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