“The story of Scient and the bursting of the e-consulting bubble.”

“According to a mission-critical new study, people who use the latest business buzz phrases may actually harm their companies by using jargon in place of more concise language, a practice the report derisively calls ‘message de-engineering.’”

“Bankrupt entrepreneurs and laid-off dot-commers in Silicon Valley are pointing angry fingers at venture capitalists, whom they blame for taking too many companies public too soon and fueling the great implosion of the tech sector.”