But, then the dot com bubble burst and they were forced to make money.
See also Henry Blodget, Mary Meeker and Anthony Noto from the dot com bubble.
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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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.
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).
Following the dot com bubble, I realized that I was not cut out to be a stock picker, but I wanted to help others when it came to financial decisions, so I looked into becoming a financial planner.
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The solar stocks "mini-bubble", the meteoric rise of the clean energy sector in 2007 and the backing from Silicon Valley venture capitalists have led some to compare the clean energy sector to the dot com bubble of the late 1990s, but Nasdeo is quick to point out the differences.
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.
Another big difference between this bubble and the dot-com bubble is supply and demand.
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You know the housing bubble, the dot-com bubble and perhaps the tulip bubble.
On April 17, 2002, Greenspan downplayed the idea of a housing bubble comparable to the dot-com bubble that had burst in 2000.
In the dot-com bubble, Main Street investors, eyes glued to CNBC, eagerly invested in every new dot-com IPO.
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As the dot.com bubble burst, Citigroup was having trouble with its image and stock valuations.
The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company, co-founded by Smith in 1998, was a dot-com bubble darling.
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On the economic front, America was in a recession, the dot-com bubble having already burst.
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.
They founded Sand Hill Group in 1997 before the dot-com bubble and that yielded some big investment returns.
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The sole exception is the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which remains far below the peaks it scaled in the dot-com bubble.
The dot-com bubble in the nineties has everyone justifiably nervous whenever an online IPO gets a lot of buzz.
Only during the dot-com bubble did gold in a portfolio hurt its performance.
At the peak of the dot-com bubble in 1999, Wagner and partner, Mark Cuban, sold their fledging company, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo!
But these might be decent problems to have considering the slump the city was feeling after the dot-com bubble and financial crisis.
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Louis Rams played the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV, a moment that will be forever remembered as the dot-com bubble's Waterloo.
The company went public in 1999 and fought through the dot-com bubble.
San Francisco, a consistent big loser for the last decade, jumped to 19th, presumably as a result of the current dot.com bubble.
Many of these were due to a contraction of the tech sector in the wake of the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
During the last dot-com bubble, you kind of knew in your gut it was a bubble when Hollywood types like Barbra Streisand starting investing.
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