At the same the Internet bubble kind of collapsed a little bit at that time.
The Internet bubble in Europe and Asia seems sure to be followed by similar collapses.
ECONOMIST: The e-commerce boom is changing business��for the better
Sceptics predict that these streams of money will soon dry up, once the Internet bubble bursts.
This is higher than during the burst of the Internet bubble or the 1987 stock market crash.
Last year the industry added 30, 000 jobs, regaining about one-third of those lost after the bursting of the Internet bubble.
For those of who lived through Internet Bubble 1.0, which popped 10 years ago, the possibility is chilling.
FORBES: LinkedIn's Stunning Public Debut Heightens Fears Of Bubble 2.0
All this will reignite a debate about whether the mania for social-networking sites is inflating another internet bubble.
These are the critics who think there is an Internet Bubble right now.
The Internet bubble is clearly distorting the market, and its bursting may well cause pain across the whole economy.
ECONOMIST: The e-commerce boom is changing business��for the better
Meanwhile, customers' expectations have risen: a legacy, not least, of the internet bubble.
Nevertheless, despite much talk of an overheated venture capital environment, valuations at all stages remain well below those during the Internet bubble.
The Internet bubble had burst in the spring of 2000, and we were in the midst of a bear market in stocks.
Saylor was one of the great businessman seers of the Internet bubble.
FORBES: Microstrategy's Michael Saylor Is Back, And Not Shy About It
Be mindful that a 10 year time horizon avoids the internet bubble.
By keeping interest rates at historic lows, however, his easy money fueled manias: first the Internet bubble and then the now-burst mortgage bubble.
He rightly points out that any assessment of America's economy based on the peak of its Internet bubble in 1999-2000 would be misleading.
To add a little more perspective, these are similar multiples for Cisco Systems at the very peak of the Internet bubble in March 2000.
On the flip side, LinkedIn could eventually vanish, as did Pets.com and online grocery provider Webvan after the internet bubble burst in March 2000.
FORBES: LinkedIn Gives Social Media Investors Reason For Optimism
The trouble with this argument is that the Dean campaign looks ever less like a political revolution and ever more like an internet bubble.
Before the Internet bubble burst, such deals were a common way for small tech companies to raise capital without issuing a lot of potentially dilutive shares.
First, the current correction comes on the heels of two severe bear markets in the past decade: The Internet Bubble of 2000-2002 and Credit Crisis of 2007-2009.
During the internet bubble, managers exercising fat packages of stock options paid a lot of tax at once, instead of a lesser amount spread over several years.
States like California are feeling the effects of a big drop in tax revenues (after the Internet bubble burst) and now face painful choices as a result.
During the Internet bubble Cisco was briefly the world's most valuable company, but now it and Microsoft together have a market cap about equal to that of Apple.
After the Internet bubble burst, so did Enron's stock price.
The first internet bubble was pretty much a foregone conclusion.
应用推荐