That urge to flee was especially fierce in the hot-potato days of the tech bust.
Easy money after the tech bust led to the housing boom and financial crisis.
He also claims his record since the tech bust proves he's no trick pony.
The tech bust in his native Massachusetts provided seasoned programmers from places like Hitachi and Digital Equipment.
As investors fled e-brokerages amid the tech bust, trading volumes evaporated, along with 87% of Ameritrade's market value.
The tech bust was raging by the time he graduated in 2001 with a double major in economics and international relations.
The tech bust launched 519 securities class actions in 2001, but then the number filed declined steadily to 131 five years later.
Those installations helped cushion the blow of the 2001 tech bust, when Baron had to lay off 9 of his 40 employees.
Advertisers fled in the wake of the tech bust, and in early 2002, the chief executive who had replaced Dobbs the previous year quit.
The rush of public money into real estate has many signs of the rearview-mirror investing that cost New Jersey so dearly during the tech bust.
Standing outside the old Motorola plant in East Kilbride, part of the area known as Silicon Glen, there's evidence of tech boom, tech bust and of some "green-shoots".
The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.
The current monetary inflation that is the Bernanke boom-bust-to-be is already multiples larger than the monetary inflation that produced the tech bust and, at this point in the boom-bust cycle, even larger than the inflationary surge that gave us the housing bust turn Great Recession.
This is a hot topic in the startup world right now for a variety of historical reasons: some say hiring expensive MBAs helped cause the tech bust a decade ago, and some say that MBAs have too much swagger to make it in the hustle of startup life.
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Technology, where the fraudsters supposedly hung their hats during the volatile days of the tech boom and bust, only drew cases against 1.2% of the companies.
Capstone's turbines piled up in the warehouses of distributors such as Cinergy (nyse: CIN - news - people ), Sumitomo and others as high-tech buyers went bust.
Opnet went public in August 2000, just in time for the turn-of-the-century bust in tech and telecom.
Mr Ebbers is the biggest catch so far from the spate of corporate crime that was exposed as the tech boom turned to bust.
He bet heavily on two frothy telecoms firms in the late 1990s tech bubble, which went bust.
And then, after the housing bust and high-tech job losses, it became a major drag on growth.
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The 45-year-old Mr. Grimes, who had joined a year earlier, helped rebuild Morgan Stanley's tech team through the dotcom boom and bust.
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There are countless examples of tech companies that have faded away or gone bust.
The recession has exacerbated a long-term trend, says Mr Gill, who thinks many venture-capital investors have been put off the high-tech sector by a combination of uncertain returns and memories of the dotcom bust at the turn of the century.
The internet bust led it to shut down Robertson Stephens, its high-tech investment bank.
Policy support for clean tech commercialization, demonstration, and deployment was in equally bad shape, plagued by boom-and-bust periods of expiring incentives and on-again, off-again subsidy extensions.
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