SoftBank

DotCom investor

Howard Rheingold re Electric Minds http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_11/rheingold/index.html

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_32/b3895073.htm

http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/1999/07/23/internet_economy/

At its peak in 2000 Softbank's market capitalization was US$200billion. It lost US$448million in the second half of 2001, with capitalisation sliding to US$30billion.