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Is Another Dot-com Bubble in Danger of Bursting?
from USA Today
The astronomical investment values for hot Internet companies could presage a dot-com bubble rife with unprecedented risks.
Investors are Copy-Pasting Tech Bubble
from The National
Remember the dotcom boom? Remember the heady days of the late 1990s, when technology stocks went through the roof and spotty geeks became multimillionaires overnight?

New Dot-com Bubble Looms Ahead of Groupon IPO
from Yahoo! News
Groupon has exploded in 2011, more than doubling its subscriber list to a whopping 115 million folks and solidifying its position at the top of the daily deals heap.

Dot-com Bubble 2.0 in the works as E-retailers cook up profits
from the Economic Times
Beneath the gloss of scorching growth and valuations of Indian e-commerce companies, there are nagging questions about their accounting practices and ownership patterns that recall the Internet bubble of 2000.

Cashing Out Infographic
from The Source.com
In recent months, Social Media giants such as Facebook and Groupon have seen their current and former employees begin to unload their equity. Is this the beginning of a massive tech company sell out?

Majority of Tech Execs Say We're in Another Bubble
from The Atlantic Wire
With valuations of tech companies reaching the multi-billion-dollar stratosphere, a question that's consistently been on market watchers' minds this year is whether it's 2000 all over again.

Video: Peter Thiel Talks Tech Bubble, IPOs
from the Wall Street Journal
Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and Facebook’s first outside investor, says that the tech bubble doesn’t exist.

Tech Bubble? Not Anymore.
from Newsweek
Venture capitalists thought they would soon be cashing in as a new crop of tech stocks went public. Now it’s time for plan B.

Venture capital mood cools in Silicon Valley
from the Financial Times
The consumer internet bubble that has been building for the past year in the venture capital world is set to deflate rapidly following the turmoil that has swept through financial markets, according to investors and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

Good News! The Bubble that Never Inflated Has Popped
from Tech Crunch
There are two kinds of bubbles. There are actual economic ones that artificially drive up valuations across broad categories in an unsustainable way, impacting markets on a mass scale. And there are physiological ones

5 Survival Tips for Startups
from ZDNet
In today's competitive online landscape, where companies are increasingly leveraging the Internet as a business platform, there are still good lessons to glean from surviving startups of the dot-com era.
 

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