Words matter. These are the best Dot-Com Quotes from famous people such as Adam Lashinsky, Nick Saban, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Munira Mirza, Vivek Wadhwa, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.
I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
In times of stress, it is easy to look to one’s weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that London’s cultural strengths are not some ephemeral dot-com bubble; they are a real, tangible legacy of decades of investment in talent.
During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.
As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues – some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
The joke about SAP has always been, it’s making ’50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it’s really – yeah, the incumbency – they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.
Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com… is always up there, right?
It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing… with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits’ end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.
At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he’d co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.
It’s a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it’s not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.
The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
As so often happened during the dot-com bubble days, the revenues that AOL and PurchasePro were counting on did not materialize. And instead of confronting that harsh reality, AOL and PurchasePro cooked up a scheme to inflate PurchasePro’s revenues.
And, you know, I came out of college in the early ’90s. That was a great time to exit school and get a job in the dot-com world and get educated.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?
Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn’t name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn’t available.
The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.
I think we’ve seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo – these are names we never would have dreamed major corporations would choose.
We’re probably one of the few Internet dot-com B2Bs business-to-business companies that have improved their bottom line.
