But, then the dot com bubble burst and they were forced to make money.
See also Henry Blodget, Mary Meeker and Anthony Noto from the dot com bubble.
As the dot.com bubble burst, Citigroup was having trouble with its image and stock valuations.
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.
Obviously, at the end of that eight years, we know that there was a .com bubble that hurt our economy.
Many families lost money in the dot com bubble, then lost money in the housing bubble, and then lost their jobs.
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At the peak of the dot-com bubble in 1999, Wagner and partner, Mark Cuban, sold their fledging company, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo!
Yacktman badly underperformed the market in the years leading up the dot com bubble, then again prior to the financial crisis.
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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.
San Francisco, a consistent big loser for the last decade, jumped to 19th, presumably as a result of the current 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.
With the entrance of the dot.com bubble and Gen X (and eventually Gen Y) came a much more instant gratification, self-oriented nature to the workforce.
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.
The timing, which combines a local recession and hints of the end of the dot.com bubble with worries about the millennium bug, is scarcely propitious.
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