Turns Out the Dot-Com Bust’s Worst Flops Were Actually Fantastic Ideas

The lesson here is that innovation is built on the shoulders of failure, and sometimes, the line between the world’s biggest success and the world’s biggest flop is a matter of timing or logistics or tools or infrastructure or luck, or—and here’s the lesson that today’s high flying startups should take to heart—scope of ambition.

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/da-bom/