All of this excitement had created a rush to go public, reminiscent of the dot.com era.
That's still a far cry from its dot-com era high of 5, 048 from March 10, 2000.
Workers are more open to starting a small business in the dot-com era, Challenger said.
She says it's not about returning to the tech-bubble days of the dot-com era.
The media squawked about the return of the hedonism and lavish parties of the dot com era.
This is not Webvan or Kozmo.com, two dot-com era grocery delivery flameouts.
Pejman Nozad got his start as an investor during the dot-com era by exchanging commercial real estate for stakes in startups, notably PayPal.
In the dot-com era, when we were all sure it really was going to be different this time, equity research was freely flowing.
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That could put them at risk of obsolescence, similar to the way dot-com era Internet Malls were quickly leapfrogged by eBay and Amazon.com.
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Also around this time, the dot-com era had attracted talent out of the traditional enterprise and exacerbated productivity problems by leaving less motivated staff behind.
Gayman, who had worked as a developer in the Bay Area during the tail end of the dot-com era before rejoining the family firm, spotted an opportunity.
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Others believe the dot.com era really ended when Asia Global Crossing became in September 2000 the last flotation in a series dating back to America Online in 1992.
After almost three years of living in Vietnam, I returned to the U.S. and quickly found myself caught up in to the boom and bust of the dot-com era.
And after a decade in Austin, he moved to the heart of Silicon Valley Start-up Common (SVSC) where he finances start-ups that need less capital than those of the dot-com era.
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Growing up in Cupertino, California, which is best known as the home of Apple, I was surrounded by an aura of optimism that comes from the infinite possibilities technology and the dot-com era brought.
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But the BBC's Mark Gregory says the guilty verdict for Ebbers will be a huge relief for the US prosecutors, who have found it hard to win convictions against those they see as responsible for the excesses of the dot com era.
The company in some ways typified the excesses of the dot-com era: It went so far as to advertise with stickers on apples and bananas, sent Jeeves-type butlers to busy public places at lunch and leased tens of thousands of square feet of office space, expecting no end to its growth.
Mutual funds are chasing hedge funds into PIPEs, as one of the hot investment angles of the old dot-com-boom era goes legit.
It should be noted that Wall Street analysts were implicated and paid fines for some of the worst abuses in recommending canine-like dot-com stocks during the Henry Blodget era.
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Moulitsas and Jane Hamsher, founder of firedoglake.com, stopped by to talk about liberal blogging in the Obama era as well as their new political venture to help fund primary opponents against Democrats who they believe are not representing their constituents' views.
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