<PAGE>

          As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2000
                                                           Registration No. 333-
===============================================================================

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                               -------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                               -------------------

                              NET PERCEPTIONS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

<TABLE>

<S>                                             <C>                                  <C>
                 DELAWARE                                   7372                         41-1844584
       (State or other jurisdiction             (Primary Standard Industrial            (IRS Employer
     of incorporation or organization)           Classification Code Number)         Identification No.)

</TABLE>

                             7901 FLYING CLOUD DRIVE
                          MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55344
                                 (612) 903-9424
               (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

                               -------------------

                      NET PERCEPTIONS, INC. 2000 STOCK PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plan)

                               -------------------

                                STEVEN J. SNYDER
                       PRESIDENT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                              NET PERCEPTIONS, INC.
                             7901 FLYING CLOUD DRIVE
                          MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55344

                     (Name and address of agent for service)
                                 (612) 903-9424
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                               -------------------

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
===============================================================================

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

            Title of                                           Proposed Maximum      Proposed Maximum
           Securities                        Amount                Offering              Aggregate            Amount of
              to be                          to be                   Price               Offering           Registration
           Registered                    Registered (1)            per Share             Price (2)               Fee
           ----------                    ----------                ---------             -----                   ---


<S>                                      <C>                       <C>                   <C>                     <C>
     Options                                    500,000                N/A                   N/A                  N/A
 Common Stock (par value $.0001)            500,000 shares         $11.59375(2)          $5,796,875(2)        $1,530.38

</TABLE>

 (1)     This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of
         Common Stock which become issuable under the 2000 Stock Plan by reason
         of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar
         transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results
         in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
         of Net Perceptions, Inc.

(2)      Calculated solely for purposes of this offering under Rule 457(h) of
         the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of
         the high and low prices per share of Common Stock of Net Perceptions,
         Inc. on July 31, 2000.


<PAGE>

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT


Item 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         Net Perceptions, Inc. (the "Registrant") hereby incorporates by
reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC")

         (a)      The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
                  year ended December 31, 1999; and

         (b)      The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the
                  SEC for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2000; and

         (c)      The Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
                  SEC on February 22, 2000; and

         (d)      The Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed with
                  the SEC on April 21, 2000; and

         (e)      Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for the 2000 Annual Meeting
                  of Stockholders filed with the SEC on April 6, 2000; and

         (f)      Registration Statement No. 000-25781 on Form 8-A12G filed with
                  the SEC on April 15, 1999, together with all amendments
                  thereto, pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act
                  of 1934, as amended (the "34 Act") in which there is described
                  the terms, rights and provisions applicable to the
                  Registrant's outstanding Common Stock.

         All reports and definitive proxy or information statements filed
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act after the date of
this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or
which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Item 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Not Applicable.

Item 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         Not Applicable.

Item 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court
to award or a corporation's board of directors to grant indemnification to
directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such
indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including
reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the 1933 Act. Article VII,
Section 6, of the Registrant's Bylaws provides for mandatory indemnification of
its directors and officers and permissible indemnification of employees and
other agents to the maximum extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation
Law. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that, pursuant to
Delaware law, its directors shall not be liable for monetary damages for breach
of their fiduciary duty as directors to the Registrant and its stockholders.
This provision in the Certificate of Incorporation does not eliminate the
fiduciary duty of the directors, and, in appropriate circumstances, equitable
remedies such as injunctive or other forms of non-monetary relief will remain
available under Delaware law. In addition, each director will continue to be
subject to liability for breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
Registrant for acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional
misconduct, for knowing violations of law, for actions leading to improper
personal benefit to the director and for payment of dividends or approval of
stock repurchases or redemptions that are unlawful under Delaware law. The
provision also does not affect a director's responsibilities under any other
law, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal environmental laws.
The Registrant has entered into Indemnification Agreements with its officers and
directors. The Indemnification Agreements provide the Registrant's officers and
directors with further indemnification to the maximum extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law.


                                      II-1
<PAGE>

Item 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Not Applicable.

Item 8.  EXHIBITS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Exhibit Number        Exhibit
--------------        -------
<S>                   <C>

     4.1*             Amended and Restated Investors Rights Agreement, dated
                      December 18, 1997, among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the
                      investors and founders named therein, as amended.

     4.2**            Registration Rights Agreement, dated February 14, 2000,
                      by and among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the stockholders
                      named therein.

     4.3*             Specimen Common Stock certificate.

     5                Opinion and consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve
                      Franklin & Hachigian, LLP.

    23.1              Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
                      Accountants.

    23.2              Consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve  Franklin
                      & Hachigian, LLP is contained in Exhibit 5.

    24                Power of Attorney.  Reference is made to page II-5 of this
                      Registration Statement.
</TABLE>

* Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-71919 and filing date of February 5, 1999).

**Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-31230 and filing date of February 28, 2000).

Item 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

                  A.       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: (1) to
file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement (i) to include any
prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act, (ii) to reflect in the
prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this
Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
information set forth in this Registration Statement and (iii) to include any
material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such
information in this Registration Statement; PROVIDED, however, that clauses
(1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall not apply if the information required to be included in
a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports
filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act that are incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement; (2) that for the purpose of determining any liability
under the 1933 Act each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof and (3) to remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the Registrant's 2000 Stock Plan.

                  B.       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
1934 Act that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                  C.       Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the 1933 Act may be permitted to directors, officers or controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the indemnification provisions summarized
in Item 6 or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that, in the opinion of
the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 1933
Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


                                      II-2
<PAGE>

                                   SIGNATURES


                  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota on this July   ,
2000.


                            NET PERCEPTIONS, INC.

                                     /s/ Steven J. Snyder
                            By:      ------------------------------------------
                                     Steven J. Snyder
                                     President and Chief Executive Officer



                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
                                -----------------

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

                  That the undersigned officers and directors of Net
Perceptions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, do hereby constitute and appoint
Steven J. Snyder and Thomas M. Donnelly, and either of them, the lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power and authority to do any and all
acts and things and to execute any and all instruments which said attorneys and
agents, and either one of them, determine may be necessary or advisable or
required to enable said corporation to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules or regulations or requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in connection with this Registration Statement. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing power and authority, the powers granted
include the power and authority to sign the names of the undersigned officers
and directors in the capacities indicated below to this Registration Statement,
to any and all amendments, both pre-effective and post-effective, and
supplements to this Registration Statement, and to any and all instruments or
documents filed as part of or in conjunction with this Registration Statement or
amendments or supplements thereof, and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies
and confirms all that said attorneys and agents, or either one of them, shall do
or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This Power of Attorney may be signed in
several counterparts.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this
Power of Attorney as of the date indicated.

                  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

Signature                                 Title                                               Date
---------                                 -----                                               ----
<S>                                       <C>                                                 <C>
    /s/ Steven J. Snyder
---------------------------------         President, Chief Executive Officer and Director     August 1, 2000
        Steven J. Snyder                  (Principal Executive Officer)

    /s/ Thomas M. Donnelly
---------------------------------         Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and    August 1, 2000
        Thomas M. Donnelly                Accounting Officer) and Secretary

<PAGE>

<CAPTION>

Signature                                 Title                                               Date
---------                                 -----                                               ----
<S>                                       <C>                                                 <C>
     /s/ John T. Riedl
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
         John T. Riedl                    Director

    /s/ Ann L. Winblad
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
        Ann L. Winblad                    Director

   /s/ Douglas J. Burgum
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
       Douglas J. Burgum                  Director

   /s/ Will Lansing
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
       Will Lansing                       Director
</TABLE>

<PAGE>

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

Exhibit Number        Exhibit
--------------        -------
<S>                   <C>
     4.1*             Amended and Restated Investors Rights Agreement, dated
                      December 18, 1997, among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the
                      investors and founders named therein, as amended.

     4.2**            Registration Rights Agreement, dated February 14, 2000,
                      by and among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the stockholders
                      named therein.

     4.3*             Specimen Common Stock certificate.

     5                Opinion and consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve
                      Franklin & Hachigian, LLP.

    23.1              Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
                      Accountants.

    23.2              Consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin
                      & Hachigian, LLP is contained in Exhibit 5.

    24                Power of Attorney.  Reference is made  to page II-5
                      of this Registration Statement.
</TABLE>

* Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-71919 and filing date of February 5, 1999).

**Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-31230 and filing date of February 28, 2000).
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2000
                                                           Registration No. 333-
===============================================================================

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                               -------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                               -------------------

                              NET PERCEPTIONS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE                                   7372                         41-1844584
       (State or other jurisdiction             (Primary Standard Industrial            (IRS Employer
     of incorporation or organization)           Classification Code Number)         Identification No.)
7901 FLYING CLOUD DRIVE
                          MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55344
                                 (612) 903-9424
               (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

                               -------------------

                      NET PERCEPTIONS, INC. 2000 STOCK PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plan)

                               -------------------

                                STEVEN J. SNYDER
                       PRESIDENT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                              NET PERCEPTIONS, INC.
                             7901 FLYING CLOUD DRIVE
                          MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55344

                     (Name and address of agent for service)
                                 (612) 903-9424
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                               -------------------

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
===============================================================================
Title of                                           Proposed Maximum      Proposed Maximum
           Securities                        Amount                Offering              Aggregate            Amount of
              to be                          to be                   Price               Offering           Registration
           Registered                    Registered (1)            per Share             Price (2)               Fee
           ----------                    ----------                ---------             -----                   ---
Options                                    500,000                N/A                   N/A                  N/A
 Common Stock (par value $.0001)            500,000 shares         $11.59375(2)          $5,796,875(2)        $1,530.38
(1)     This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of
         Common Stock which become issuable under the 2000 Stock Plan by reason
         of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar
         transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results
         in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
         of Net Perceptions, Inc.

(2)      Calculated solely for purposes of this offering under Rule 457(h) of
         the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of
         the high and low prices per share of Common Stock of Net Perceptions,
         Inc. on July 31, 2000.
PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         Net Perceptions, Inc. (the "Registrant") hereby incorporates by
reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC")

         (a)      The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
                  year ended December 31, 1999; and

         (b)      The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the
                  SEC for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2000; and

         (c)      The Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the
                  SEC on February 22, 2000; and

         (d)      The Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed with
                  the SEC on April 21, 2000; and

         (e)      Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for the 2000 Annual Meeting
                  of Stockholders filed with the SEC on April 6, 2000; and

         (f)      Registration Statement No. 000-25781 on Form 8-A12G filed with
                  the SEC on April 15, 1999, together with all amendments
                  thereto, pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act
                  of 1934, as amended (the "34 Act") in which there is described
                  the terms, rights and provisions applicable to the
                  Registrant's outstanding Common Stock.

         All reports and definitive proxy or information statements filed
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act after the date of
this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or
which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Item 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Not Applicable.

Item 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         Not Applicable.

Item 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court
to award or a corporation's board of directors to grant indemnification to
directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such
indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including
reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the 1933 Act. Article VII,
Section 6, of the Registrant's Bylaws provides for mandatory indemnification of
its directors and officers and permissible indemnification of employees and
other agents to the maximum extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation
Law. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that, pursuant to
Delaware law, its directors shall not be liable for monetary damages for breach
of their fiduciary duty as directors to the Registrant and its stockholders.
This provision in the Certificate of Incorporation does not eliminate the
fiduciary duty of the directors, and, in appropriate circumstances, equitable
remedies such as injunctive or other forms of non-monetary relief will remain
available under Delaware law. In addition, each director will continue to be
subject to liability for breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
Registrant for acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional
misconduct, for knowing violations of law, for actions leading to improper
personal benefit to the director and for payment of dividends or approval of
stock repurchases or redemptions that are unlawful under Delaware law. The
provision also does not affect a director's responsibilities under any other
law, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal environmental laws.
The Registrant has entered into Indemnification Agreements with its officers and
directors. The Indemnification Agreements provide the Registrant's officers and
directors with further indemnification to the maximum extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law.

                                      II-1
Item 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Not Applicable.

Item 8.  EXHIBITS
Exhibit Number        Exhibit
--------------        -------
4.1*             Amended and Restated Investors Rights Agreement, dated
                      December 18, 1997, among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the
                      investors and founders named therein, as amended.

     4.2**            Registration Rights Agreement, dated February 14, 2000,
                      by and among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the stockholders
                      named therein.

     4.3*             Specimen Common Stock certificate.

     5                Opinion and consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve
                      Franklin & Hachigian, LLP.

    23.1              Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
                      Accountants.

    23.2              Consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve  Franklin
                      & Hachigian, LLP is contained in Exhibit 5.

    24                Power of Attorney.  Reference is made to page II-5 of this
                      Registration Statement.
* Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-71919 and filing date of February 5, 1999).

**Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-31230 and filing date of February 28, 2000).

Item 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

                  A.       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: (1) to
file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement (i) to include any
prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act, (ii) to reflect in the
prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this
Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
information set forth in this Registration Statement and (iii) to include any
material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such
information in this Registration Statement; PROVIDED, however, that clauses
(1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall not apply if the information required to be included in
a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports
filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act that are incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement; (2) that for the purpose of determining any liability
under the 1933 Act each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof and (3) to remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the Registrant's 2000 Stock Plan.

                  B.       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
1934 Act that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                  C.       Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the 1933 Act may be permitted to directors, officers or controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the indemnification provisions summarized
in Item 6 or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that, in the opinion of
the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 1933
Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                      II-2
SIGNATURES

                  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota on this July   ,
2000.

                            NET PERCEPTIONS, INC.

                                     /s/ Steven J. Snyder
                            By:      ------------------------------------------
                                     Steven J. Snyder
                                     President and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
                                -----------------

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

                  That the undersigned officers and directors of Net
Perceptions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, do hereby constitute and appoint
Steven J. Snyder and Thomas M. Donnelly, and either of them, the lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power and authority to do any and all
acts and things and to execute any and all instruments which said attorneys and
agents, and either one of them, determine may be necessary or advisable or
required to enable said corporation to comply with the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and any rules or regulations or requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in connection with this Registration Statement. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing power and authority, the powers granted
include the power and authority to sign the names of the undersigned officers
and directors in the capacities indicated below to this Registration Statement,
to any and all amendments, both pre-effective and post-effective, and
supplements to this Registration Statement, and to any and all instruments or
documents filed as part of or in conjunction with this Registration Statement or
amendments or supplements thereof, and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies
and confirms all that said attorneys and agents, or either one of them, shall do
or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This Power of Attorney may be signed in
several counterparts.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this
Power of Attorney as of the date indicated.

                  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature                                 Title                                               Date
---------                                 -----                                               ----
/s/ Steven J. Snyder
---------------------------------         President, Chief Executive Officer and Director     August 1, 2000
        Steven J. Snyder                  (Principal Executive Officer)

    /s/ Thomas M. Donnelly
---------------------------------         Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and    August 1, 2000
        Thomas M. Donnelly                Accounting Officer) and Secretary
Signature                                 Title                                               Date
---------                                 -----                                               ----
/s/ John T. Riedl
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
         John T. Riedl                    Director

    /s/ Ann L. Winblad
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
        Ann L. Winblad                    Director

   /s/ Douglas J. Burgum
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
       Douglas J. Burgum                  Director

   /s/ Will Lansing
---------------------------------                                                             August 1, 2000
       Will Lansing                       Director
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number        Exhibit
--------------        -------
4.1*             Amended and Restated Investors Rights Agreement, dated
                      December 18, 1997, among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the
                      investors and founders named therein, as amended.

     4.2**            Registration Rights Agreement, dated February 14, 2000,
                      by and among Net Perceptions, Inc. and the stockholders
                      named therein.

     4.3*             Specimen Common Stock certificate.

     5                Opinion and consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve
                      Franklin & Hachigian, LLP.

    23.1              Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
                      Accountants.

    23.2              Consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin
                      & Hachigian, LLP is contained in Exhibit 5.

    24                Power of Attorney.  Reference is made  to page II-5
                      of this Registration Statement.
* Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-71919 and filing date of February 5, 1999).

**Incorporated by reference to Net Perceptions' Registration Statement on
Form S-1 (SEC file number 333-31230 and filing date of February 28, 2000).