But, then the dot com bubble burst and they were forced to make money.
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See also Henry Blodget, Mary Meeker and Anthony Noto from the dot com bubble.
The novel interactions of the original dot com world were contextualized by knowledge of the customer.
Another is Amazon, but Play dot com, which was started in Jersey, is staying.
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Following on from the dot com bust, he put his own money into an Internet fund.
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Ten years ago, everyone at my school wanted to be a dot com entrepreneur.
The media squawked about the return of the hedonism and lavish parties of the dot com era.
In the dot-com bubble, Main Street investors, eyes glued to CNBC, eagerly invested in every new dot-com IPO.
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Athletes are no different than all those dot com folk years back who bought ridiculous homes and items.
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Leave it to the alternate paper, golocalprov dot com, to cover this issue.
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Bit by bit, places like thestreet dot com, the Financial Times, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, and other places started publishing them.
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Online markets did make a go of it during the Dot Com boom, but failed for a variety of reasons.
Many families lost money in the dot com bubble, then lost money in the housing bubble, and then lost their jobs.
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Yacktman badly underperformed the market in the years leading up the dot com bubble, then again prior to the financial crisis.
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This was in 1999, when it was a challenge to get big processors to handle transactions for a dot com startup.
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Time passed, more money was lost and statutes of limitations continued to run on the huge losses related to the 2000-2001 dot com meltdown.
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For four swoon-filled years during the dot com boom and bust a decade ago, I lived in San Francisco, the beautiful lotus-eating, Pacific-touching, city on a hill.
With it I bought five or six companies, including egghead.com, because anything with the name dot com at the end would triple in value overnight.
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MatchON Sports it was one of the biggest dot com companies in Finland and it went straight ( into) the wall and went bankrupt.
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Every time a system is in a state of crisis or transition both curves become bumpy (see the bump corresponding to the dot com crisis in 2000).
Refusing to fade into retirement, the successful Peters still uses a key lesson from the collapse of the dot com bubble -- the value and importance of failure.
If anything, after the dot com, technology, and housing bubbles and financial system meltdown, the nation seems to be craving exactly the type of investment that Social Security represents.
Likewise, investors who bet against the dot.com stocks in early 2001 made a killing as the dot.com bubble burst Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), for instance, is trading near 80 percent below its 2000 peak.
She explained that living through the dot com bubble burst was one of the best learning experiences to be a VC now, as it provided lessons in noticing patterns (and in missing them).
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Be careful, reminds me of 1999-2000 (dot com).
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