Another big difference between this bubble and the dot-com bubble is supply and demand.
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The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company, co-founded by Smith in 1998, was a dot-com bubble darling.
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On the economic front, America was in a recession, the dot-com bubble having already burst.
The market has failed newspapers since the dot-com bubble burst and ad revenue vanished.
So what happened was that before the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, VCs did amazingly well.
In the dot-com bubble, Main Street investors, eyes glued to CNBC, eagerly invested in every new dot-com IPO.
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They founded Sand Hill Group in 1997 before the dot-com bubble and that yielded some big investment returns.
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The sole exception is the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which remains far below the peaks it scaled in the dot-com bubble.
You know the housing bubble, the dot-com bubble and perhaps the tulip bubble.
The dot-com bubble in the nineties has everyone justifiably nervous whenever an online IPO gets a lot of buzz.
Only during the dot-com bubble did gold in a portfolio hurt its performance.
At the peak of the dot-com bubble in 1999, Wagner and partner, Mark Cuban, sold their fledging company, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo!
On April 17, 2002, Greenspan downplayed the idea of a housing bubble comparable to the dot-com bubble that had burst in 2000.
But these might be decent problems to have considering the slump the city was feeling after the dot-com bubble and financial crisis.
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Louis Rams played the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV, a moment that will be forever remembered as the dot-com bubble's Waterloo.
The company went public in 1999 and fought through the dot-com bubble.
Many of these were due to a contraction of the tech sector in the wake of the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
During the last dot-com bubble, you kind of knew in your gut it was a bubble when Hollywood types like Barbra Streisand starting investing.
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During the dot-com bubble and the recent credit expansion, market institutions that normally acted as a corrective force were giving in to the frenzy instead.
Since the burst of the dot-com bubble, the Internet-connected refrigerator, blender, toaster--fill in your favorite appliance here--have all become hackneyed jokes of a bygone era.
First, the dot-com bubble burst, taking with it the inflated capital-spending plans of everybody who had been hoping to make a buck off of it.
Just before the dot-com bubble burst in the U.S., some restaurants served up roast lamb basted in flakes of gold or desserts garnished with curls of gold leaf.
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The year 2000 may have seen the dot-com bubble reach the limits of its inflation, but at that point the Internet marketing industry was really only getting started.
In the late 1990s the seemingly boundless corporate spending on servers and computers in the heady days of the dot-com bubble fueled the growth of the semiconductor industry.
Finally, while data are available back to 2000, the early years have not been included as the VC industry was still reeling from the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
Consider also that tech buying cycles in the public and private sectors sometimes diverge, as they did dramatically after the dot-com bubble burst at the turn of the century.
The dot-com bubble pop knocked down sales 20% at Wang Steak in early 2000, but that only prompted Day to look to lower-end markets and an avenue for rapid expansion.
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With the debut of the Kindle Fire HD, the dot-com bubble survivor is working hard to build out its own ecosystem with as little reliance on others as possible.
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Yale professor Robert Shiller famously predicted the dot-com bubble.
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But after the 2000 burst of the dot-com bubble and the World Trade Center attacks of 2001, Sheppard found that people were less open to innovative, quirky ideas and more concerned about money.
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