Word: dotcomers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turned it into a business. StubHub moved an estimated $60 million worth of tickets in 2003 and also turned its first profit. "StubHub's concept centralizes a big, fragmented market," says David Kirsch, a University of Maryland business professor who studies both the suckers and the survivors of the dotcom era. "It's a company I'd take...
...London. During one particularly long night of proofreading PowerPoint slides and commiserating by phone about finding yet another error courtesy of their companies' in-house document service, they had an epiphany. They would find a better way of doing that work. This was at the height of the dotcom boom, and everyone they knew was trying to figure out a way to Silicon Valley. These two had a different idea. They would go to India, set up a team of accountants and desktop-publishing experts and persuade investment banks in New York to outsource their confidential financial documents and client...
...Indeed, to some the Hong Kong market's current China mania is eerily reminiscent of the territory's short-lived dotcom boom of 2000, when investors queued for hours to snatch up order forms for shares of Internet ventures, only to see their acquisitions turn to dross when the bubble popped. These days, the object of desire has changed, with investors equally convinced that the China boom is a sure thing. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland companies are called, spiked 152% in 2003. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing...
...prices. Liu of Atlantis warns that investors should stick to IPOs of big, stable companies that have solid earnings growth. "You have to be sure you know about the company and have done your homework," she says. Otherwise, you're likely to end up with a painful case of dotcom d?j?...
...primary repository of the bulk of human information. Search is the way we get at that information, and companies like Google wield enormous power. They reflect our common interests and shape how we learn about the world with their rapid-fire search results. This isn't just about dotcom juggernauts duking it out for stock options and bragging rights. Whoever wins the search wars owns the keys to the kingdom of knowledge. That's a big responsibility. Are search engines...