Other shrinkage occurred in fiscal 1984 and the dot-com bust years 2001 and 2002.
The dot-com bust that began in mid-2000 had done nothing to slow down house-price inflation.
One example of adversity that Linkner faced was around the time that the dot-com bust happened.
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The business shut down during the dot-com bust, and Shah relocated from Houston to San Francisco.
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When Bush took office, stocks already were sliding due to the dot-com bust that started in early 2000.
Amazon weathered the dot-com bust to improbably become not just a multifaceted retailer, but a major technology player.
Then the dot-com bust hit, leaving Kurth with a pink slip and no idea what to do next.
San Fran's rental market, which took a major spill after the dot-com bust, has regained strength--and costly price tags.
"This recession has already eclipsed the dot-com bust in every fashion, " he says.
During the dot-com bust, it underwent an extreme restructuring to avoid an implosion.
The remaining red ink is related to other nightmares from the dot-com bust, like employee severance and contract terminations.
But funding had vanished for startups in the wake of the dot-com bust.
He believes that if Starnet had taken the venture financing in 2000, it probably would not have survived the dot-com bust.
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After the dot-com bust, Pennington was thrilled with the opportunities to buy computing infrastructure at pennies on the dollar from busted dot-coms.
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This was to be the next business to spin out of Microsoft after Expedia but missed the window before the dot-com bust.
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The 2000 game featured messages from Buy.com, HotJobs.com, Computer.com, Epidemic.com, LifeMinders.com and the notorious Pets.com spot -- the emblem of the dot-com bust.
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LinkedIn was one of a number of companies that have successfully revived the online social networking business originally explored before the dot-com bust of 2001.
During the dot-com bust last decade, Mr. Yang used his star power to help Yahoo draw in badly needed advertisers by meeting with them personally.
During the dot-com bust ten years ago, I felt like a gladiator and our team did a phenomenal job tripling in size during a difficult time.
McKinsey takes over in the following year, and we also start to see a lot of people staying in school after graduation (anyone remember the dot-com bust?).
Victor Matheson, an economist at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, says the nation's most recent recession was the dot-com bust, which hit around March of 2001.
We learned a lot from the dot-com bust.
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And, we might take it for granted today, but it is only very recently that the companies who survived the dot-com bust changed the way we communicate with others, book travel plans and buy products.
The 42 percent increase in Netflix's market value marked the stock's biggest single-day gain since Netflix went public more than a decade ago when investors were still shunning Internet businesses in the wake of the dot-com bust.
Indeed, she took considerable heat for her unwavering faith in some of her less successful picks even in the darkest days of the dot-com bust--it took a 97% slide in Priceline shares before she backed off a buy recommendation on the stock, for instance.
Bearing in mind that the dot-com bust came on the heels of so much promise and came also within the context of this transitioning of enterprise and employee culture, there is a palpable sense that failure became an overwhelming result of complexity in many arenas.
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