Ten years ago, everyone at my school wanted to be a dot com entrepreneur.
This was in 1999, when it was a challenge to get big processors to handle transactions for a dot com startup.
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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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It's hard to determine when to short a dot-com stock with no earnings to decelerate.
Bernstein's boss and longtime friend, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky, rejects the notion that the agency is seeking a dot-com game trophy.
"Adding a dot.com to your name is easy, " says founder Noel Turner.
AOL, if it proves that a dot-com can buy a brick-and-mortar company and not suffer a share wipeout, might be the catalyst.
"Adding a dot-com to your name is easy, " says founder Noel Turner.
Six months later, you field an offer from a dot-com and you're itching to bail, but you've got this debt hanging over your head.
"Like a dot-com, " is how Mr. Stock describes the early days.
Among those that did not: Isource Metals, a dot-com-flavored bi-monthly aimed at metalworkers, and Surplus News, which was supposed to bring together buyers and sellers of excess goods.
"It'd be like asking a business today if they're a dot-com business, " he said, suggesting that every business created in 2013 should absolutely have some sort of presence on the web.
After passing on an opportunity to work with a big festival in New York, he graduated with his Juris Doctor degree and went to work for a dot-com company in Miami.
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Michael Bloom, in Los Angeles, and later worked for HBO in New York before returning to the West Coast to join a dot-com start-up called ALFY, a Web site for kids.
Though HP's Procurve line of switches already compete with Cisco's hardware, the 3Com deal will offer HP far more firepower in the war to own the corporate data center. 3Com, a dot-com boom and bust veteran, recently launched a new series of data center switches that compete directly with Cisco's Nexus switching line and cost about 40% less on average, according to the Yankee Group.
Likewise, investors who bet against the dot.com stocks in early 2001 made a killing as the dot.com bubble burst Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), for instance, is trading near 80 percent below its 2000 peak.
"I think hockey is undervalued because it is the most global of all the major sports and has a very dot.com audience, " he says.
Online markets did make a go of it during the Dot Com boom, but failed for a variety of reasons.
Nobody can argue against the appeal of a massage after a stressful, dot-com day.
Since its first national TV commercial appearance in October, Pets.com's spokespuppet has achieved a celebrity unrivaled in the dot-com branding free-for-all.
He launched online trading two decades later, took his firm public in 1997 and built a national name during the dot-com boom by offering cut rates, bare-bones service and Stuart, a ponytailed spokesman who taught his boss how cool it was to trade online.
Mr. Schaefer thinks his undisclosed dot-something could become a leading rival to the ubiquitous dot-com registry.
On the economic front, America was in a recession, the dot-com bubble having already burst.
My recommendation is to start your company with a free or very low-cost domain name, with a strong preference for dot-com.
We learned a lot from the dot-com bust.
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The four-hour event ended with everyone holding hands and singing a song with the lyrics "You have to go through a thunderstorm to see a rainbow"--a reference to the dot-com bust and the dark days of the SARS virus scare as Taobao launched in mid-2003.
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