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Back then a tiny business called lastminute.com arrived on the stockmarket to huge excitement, its price pumped to ridiculous levels by investors who were desperate not to miss out on the latest hot dotcom stock.
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However, the bursting of the dotcom and tech-stock bubbles only reinforced their lack of interest in buying and holding through whatever comes along.
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Remember the dotcom bubble in 1999, and the stock market bubble in 2000?
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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.
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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.
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The first major U.S. social networking site to go public, LinkedIn has managed to irk the business media, with most commentators, from Jim Cramer to the Financial Times calling the stock overvalued while reminding their audience of the pitfalls of the dotcom bubble.
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Very quickly, the price of this and other dotcom stocks started heading south, and other high-tech hopefuls found it impossible to get a stock market flotation.
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Those who remember Saylor from the dotcom era are now feeling a little nostalgia, either warm or clammy, depending on whether they owned Microstrategy stock back then.
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