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1. EBalance. "Equipment less than one year old!" This is perhaps the saddest epitaph an Internet company can get. It was printed on a flyer for the liquidation auction of failed dot-com EBalance. Founded in 1999, EBalance aggregated consumers' online financial accounts so that they could view stock trades and checking account balances all on one Web page.


2. Hell. Web domain Hell.com hath no takers. The Internet domain name Hell.com failed to be bought via a live auction Friday, which organizers had hoped would bring bids of more than $1 million. Hell.com was founded by Kenneth Aronson, who described the domain as a private network "global think-tank" that he wanted to sell because of all the traffic receives and all the rumors the name generates.


3. Kiko. When original news of Google Calendar came out, the Kiko founders didn’t seem particularly worried. But you don’t have to look scared to survive. But you do have to be scared and make some adjustment in the light of an oncoming train. Chances are, there was something that could have been done with the Kiko business that would have shifted them away from competing with Google Calendar. They likely needed a small dose of reality.


4. Huckabuck. By spending a year of development and marketing it failed to be sold even for $20k.


5. Inclue. This company is built around delivering feeds like this one to Microsoft Outlook users. Inclue is basically an Outlook RSS plugin. The entire product will be useless as soon as Windows Vista comes out, which includes an RSS feature, so inclue is a startup with an expiration date.

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