So CMGI remains a Patriots sponsor, but has surrendered pride of place to Gillette.
Then came the spectacular stock market run of two quasi-incubators, CMGI and Internet Capital Group.
One-time Internet star CMGI is still alive, although its shares now trade for only about 40 cents apiece.
Incubators On Life Support: CMGI 01.22.01 After a period of blistering growth, this granddaddy of Internet development companies is in serious trouble.
Exhibit 3: Wooed by a half-dozen VCs, David Secunda, chief executive of an adventure-gear e-commerce site, picked CMGI's AtVentures in Menlo Park, Calif.
When CMGI agreed to acquire AltaVista in September, the larger company decided that 1stup could serve as a valuable feeder company for some of its other properties.
CMGI, another Internet firm, whose stock price has gone offside.
"We were impressed by the success of firms such as CMGI and Internet Capital Group and believe our strengths could be leveraged similarly, " he wrote in a press release.
"We were impressed by the success of firms such as CMGI and Internet Capital Group and believed our strengths could be leveraged similarly, " he wrote in a press release.
For two years now he has made that point by showing investors a slide of history's great speculative manias, from tulips to CMGI (nasdaq: CMGI - news - people ).
First, the e-mail marketer YesMail, owned by the Internet investor CMGI, sued after MAPS threatened to add them to the RBL. YesMail calls itself a "permission marketer, " meaning that its junk is not entirely unwanted.
On Friday, the day the pair were supposed to fly home, Zipp sent out e-mail messages on their behalf to five firms: Bessemer Venture Partners, At Ventures (CMGI's venture arm), Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and U.S. Venture Partners.
Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots have yet to play their first game in the brand-new CMGI Field--and now they never will, because Gillette (nyse: G - news - people ) just stepped in to relieve troubled CMGI (nasdaq: CMGI - news - people ) of the onerous financial burden of paying the Patriots for the naming rights.
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