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Boo.com was a short-lived British e-commerce business, founded in 1998 by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin, who were regarded as sophisticated Internet entrepreneurs in Europe by the investors because they had created an online bookstore named Bokus.com, the third largest book e-retailer (in 1997), before founding boo.com.

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www.boo.com
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dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2000-00-00
inception
1998-01-01
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  • Marketing plan
  • Company vision
  • Brand name
  • Strategy
  • Reasons for failure
  • Timing
  • Problems with users experience
  • Excessive expenditure on marketing
  • Burn rate
  • Aftermath
  • Current state of the domain
  • References
  • External links

Boo.com was a short-lived British e-commerce business, founded in 1998 by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin, who were regarded as sophisticated Internet entrepreneurs in Europe by the investors because they had created an online bookstore named Bokus.com, the third largest book e-retailer (in 1997), before founding boo.com.

The company had its headquarters along Carnaby Street in London and initially had 40 employees. In October 1999, it had eight offices and 400 employees in Amsterdam, Munich, New York City, Paris, and Stockholm.

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