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.
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.
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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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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