Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 10, 2009

This change to decimalization occurred in 2001. Combined with New Order Handling rules originally passed in September 1996 and implemented in 1997, these modifications to technical trading rules fundamentally changed how then-emerging electronic trading networks (ECN’s), such as Instinet, could buy and and sell stocks.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/30/2001: 26.3. But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/30/2001: 26.3 But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At the time (2001), digital cameras were very much maligned by “real photographers&# , and certainly by the general public. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Wave’s revenues plummeted.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. We really started our company because of our shared love for adventure and the outdoors. 17) Devastating Event.

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