But, then the dot com bubble burst and they were forced to make money.
No flight has been that dismal since the rule was put in place, the DOT said.
That was during the dot-bust rollup, and I said it was impossible to do another Oracle.
All of this excitement had created a rush to go public, reminiscent of the dot.com era.
See also Henry Blodget, Mary Meeker and Anthony Noto from the dot com bubble.
As the dot.com bubble burst, Citigroup was having trouble with its image and stock valuations.
It was mainly in the dot-com boom of the 1990s when homes got massive.
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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"Film piracy is where MP3 piracy was in 1997, " he told the dot-com entertainment crowd.
It's also like the dot-com collapse, in fact, probably in longer term more like that situation.
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 DOT may be on the verge of disclosing that the problem is operator error.
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.
The dot-com bust that began in mid-2000 had done nothing to slow down house-price inflation.
The DoT is now requiring collusion on some transpacific, as well as transatlantic, flights.
One example of adversity that Linkner faced was around the time that the dot-com bust happened.
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Workers are more open to starting a small business in the dot-com era, Challenger said.
Following on from the dot com bust, he put his own money into an Internet fund.
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And as Mr Seifert well knows, the dot.com world is something of a rollercoaster.
That sound advice worked well through the dot-com and housing bubbles and the 2008 market meltdown.
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She says it's not about returning to the tech-bubble days of the dot-com era.
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