Olsher: Liquor.com filed S-1 in 2000, lost domain until 2005
Steve Olsher · EP 342: How to Write a Best-Selling Book with Steve Olsher · Jul 1, 2016 · at 4:25
Entrepreneur Steve Olsher recounts the early internet history and dot-com boom and bust trajectory of Liquor.com to host Nathan Latka.
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“Well, actually it started as a catalog company in 91. We launched on CompuServe's electronic mall in 93, put together one of the first fully functional e-commerce sites in 95, and then picked up the domain liquor.com in 98, had the S one filed to go public in 2000, everything imploded, lost everything, including the domain until 2005, and got it back.”
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