In some ways Google feels like the giddy dot-coms of the stock-market bubble, circa 1999.
That was during the dot-bust rollup, and I said it was impossible to do another Oracle.
Several thousand dot-commers have been laid-off in the last few months here in the Bay Area.
With the ease of online trading, retail investors had an insatiable appetite for dot-coms.
It was mainly in the dot-com boom of the 1990s when homes got massive.
Mr. Schaefer thinks his undisclosed dot-something could become a leading rival to the ubiquitous dot-com registry.
Their business, called Commercial Connect LLC, initially applied for the rights to dot-shop in 2000.
But for the current crop of people hoping to become dot-anything entrepreneurs, there's an immediate concern.
Much of the mad rush to sink millions into consumer mobile startups parallels the dot-com boom.
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Another big difference between this bubble and the dot-com bubble is supply and demand.
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In the dot-com heyday, there was huge supply of hundreds of Internet company IPOs.
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That's still a far cry from its dot-com era high of 5, 048 from March 10, 2000.
There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes.
The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company, co-founded by Smith in 1998, was a dot-com bubble darling.
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"Film piracy is where MP3 piracy was in 1997, " he told the dot-com entertainment crowd.
The prize is a Wall Street Journal headcut (dot-drawing) of the Winner (a "Headcut").
It's also like the dot-com collapse, in fact, probably in longer term more like that situation.
He won dot-com and Y2K business, but Televerde was a moneyloser for four years.
Rich is convinced his company can take on some of the glamour of its dot-com rivals.
But for dot-com music companies, understanding the college market has taken on a more critical importance.
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Other shrinkage occurred in fiscal 1984 and the dot-com bust years 2001 and 2002.
On the economic front, America was in a recession, the dot-com bubble having already burst.
Better yet, the pickings have gotten better since the dot-com fallout in 2001 and 2002.
Many of the dot-coms that went public had yearly revenues 100 times less than that.
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Then again, it had no choice since the dot-com industry was in its nuclear winter.
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As you will read, Breyer seemed to have lost his touch after the dot-com crash.
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.
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