European venture-capital firms lost money during 2000-10 after the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
Then the dotcom bubble burst and Doubleclick sold its ad network business to Max Worldwide.
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When the bet went wrong with the bursting of the dotcom bubble, funds went into deficit.
Indeed, continental European savers' appetite for equities never recovered from the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
The last time firms raised funds this big was at the peak of the 1990s dotcom bubble.
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The last time firms raised billion dollar funds was at the peak of the 1990s dotcom bubble.
Is anyone else having flashbacks to the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s?
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Remember the dotcom bubble in 1999, and the stock market bubble in 2000?
The dotcom bubble brought forth new firms that hoped to build the infrastructure and capacity to support the internet.
After the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, many firms turned to Linux and other open-source software to save money.
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This is a very different story from the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
Business investment has yet to recover from the aftermath of the dotcom bubble.
The dotcom bubble has burst, but not the bubble in the broader stockmarket.
The dotcom bubble of the late 1990s featured companies that were heavy on ideas but light on revenues or profits.
At times, for example during the dotcom bubble in the late 1990s, this view has been wholly out of fashion.
No doubt, even venturesome consumers can overdo their enthusiasm for innovation, just as venturesome investors overdid it during the dotcom bubble.
Mr Mishkin, a former Fed governor, draws a contrast between credit-boom bubbles and irrational exuberance in stockmarkets, such as the dotcom bubble.
Other analysts see parallels with the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s.
It's important to remember that the dotcom bubble had just burst and many people were mistaking this stock market meltdown for an internet meltdown.
By mid-2001 the dotcom bubble had burst and Arzoo had folded.
Since the bursting of the dotcom bubble consumers have logged on to the internet in increasing numbers and have become more comfortable conducting business online.
The exceptions, however, have occurred when the world economy has slowed unexpectedly most notably in 1998, after the Asian crisis, and in 2001, after the dotcom bubble burst.
The dotcom bubble of the late nineteen-nineties changed his opinion.
After reaching record highs in the build-up of the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s, the U.S. dollar has been on a steady decline, punctuated by temporary risk aversion.
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In the 1990s, we had a big bull run and then, starting in 2000 to 2002, we had a huge sell-off in stocks because of the dotcom bubble and bust.
Investment banking is notoriously volatile, but there is reason to worry that it won't bounce back as quickly as it did after the downturn that followed the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000.
The current poor performance of stockmarkets reflects, of course, a reversion to the mean after the excesses seen during the dotcom bubble, when the rolling 25-year annual return of US equities reached a remarkable 16%.
Amazon (AMZN) is an amazing success story, one of the few dotcoms that not only survived the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 1999, when its stock lost 95% of its value, but recovered and has prospered.
Instead, voters chose the boom and bust of the dotcom bubble, when trillions of dollars were made and lost between 1995 and 2001, with 19 percent (3, 420 votes) selecting the moment as the most significant in the Web's history.
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