It was mainly in the dot-com boom of the 1990s when homes got massive.
Much of the mad rush to sink millions into consumer mobile startups parallels the dot-com boom.
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These coding sessions have been very popular since the dot-com boom in the late 90s.
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Mr. Yang, the more visible of the two co-founders, quickly became a poster child of the dot-com boom.
The dot-com boom had recently turned to a bust and they knew the television station would soon shut its doors.
Just a few years later Craig Venter started making headlines for his gene-sequencing work--giving biotechnology a lofty place alongside the dot-com boom.
The stock came public at the height of the dot-com boom and has spent the last ten years recouping its immediate slide.
Short of a major scandal, brand equity built over decades carries more weight than a brand that debuted during the dot-com boom.
Not long after, the dot-com boom went bust and technology stocks crashed.
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The movie was based on a successful series of books, the first of which came out in 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom.
Groupon represents what the dot-com boom was supposed to be all about: huge sales, easy profits and solid connection between bricks-and-mortar retailers and online consumers.
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When the dot-com boom faded, so too did the industrials' earnings.
CafePress got its start in 1999, during the frenzied dot-com boom.
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At the same time, the number of active U.S. venture firms continues to shrink since the dot-com boom in 2000 when there were 1, 312 such firms.
For five glorious summers of the dot-com boom, those big European V8s played bumper cars at 30mph and threw all kinds of lovely CO2 into the air.
More recently, technology joined the party, with a high of 89 Forbes list entries in the dot-com boom year of 2000, then 42 in 2005 and 40 in 2010.
The San Francisco-based start-up is attempting something that was attempted before about a decade ago during the dot-com boom: to act as an infomediary between consumers and advertisers.
In 1999, as the dot-com boom reached new heights, environmental journalist Joel Makower launched an online publication covering business and environmental interests: two areas he believed would become more connected.
The IPOs of Zynga, LinkedIn, Groupon and other social-media companies have converged to form a wealth wave that, while more concentrated, is drawing comparisons to the dot-com boom of the late-1990s.
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"We saw a lot of waterfront property being bought and smaller homes being torn down and replaced by million dollar mansions during the dot-com boom, " explains Sara Young , economic development manager at the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce.
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.
The ever adaptable Ding founded NetEase as a software company in 1997 when that area was hot, listed it on Nasdaq three years later as an Internet portal during the dot-com boom, and then, after weathering an accounting scandal, tacked toward gaming.
Many schools saw applications stagnate during the heady days of the late 90s dot-com boom, only for demand to soar when the bubble burst and budding tycoons decided they could safely step away from the business cauldron for a while to improve their skills.
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.
Mutual funds are chasing hedge funds into PIPEs, as one of the hot investment angles of the old dot-com-boom era goes legit.
Other chroniclers of the dot.com boom - Red Herring, Business 2.0 and Fast Company - are clinging on, although they have been hit by the decline in advertising revenue as well.
This has continued unabated during the boom dot-com years, year 2000 non-problem, through the 2001 -2003 technology recession and finally through the recent boom and bust.
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