Sentences with phrase «dotcom bubble burst»

Many VC companies don't have experience with science, and after being burnt badly when the dotcom bubble burst, these days most tend to stick to what sectors they know best.

However, there were a handful of internet startups that did survive when the dotcom bubble burst.

The sector makes up 25.1 percent of the S&P 500 as of Tuesday's close, its highest weighting since November 2000 — a few months before the dotcom bubble burst — according to data from Bespoke Investment Group.

A few months later, the dotcom bubble burst.

By comparison, he adds, Nasdaq stocks hit a market value of more than $ 6 trillion before the dotcom bubble burst, not accounting for inflation.

Not exact matches

When Immelt took over at General Electric in 2001 from venerable GE boss Jack Welch, the stock was already turning over, as the dotcom bubble of the 1990s burst and took the broader stock market lower as well.

August stars Josh Hartnett as a pre-9 / 11 dotcom entrepreneur whose bubble has burst — not the freshest of subjects.

Reminiscent of the dotcom era, it could all be a massive bubble that will eventually burst.

An environment where P / E multiples are rapidly outstripping even the most bullish of forecasts from those who are paid to follow, dissect and analyse these two worrying sectors has echoes of the long inflation of the dotcom bubble in the late 1990s ahead of its rather more sudden bursting in 2000.

For example, investors who followed this strategy around the bursting of the dotcom bubble may have lost money because internet companies lacked a revenue - generating business model.

Bubbles rarely do go to zero when they burst: tulip bulbs still cost money, so does Tokyo real estate, and dotcom stocks are having a second coming.