Abstract
The writer discusses the causes behind the "dot.com bubble" where many people became overnight millionaires, but then lost everything as quickly as they gained it. The writer refers to the video "Dot.com Dot.gone" and how it explains why many companies failed and how other companies used the dot.com failure to increase their business.

From the Paper
"The "dot.com bubble", which took place starting sometime in 1995 and ending right around the year 2001, was a time when internet businesses rapidly soared into success, with many companies seeing their stock prices shoot up just by turning their company name into one with a ".com" suffix. During this time, many people found quick success, becoming overnight millionaires, but, as the video "Dot.com Dot.gone" shows, these overnight successes lost everything just as quickly as they gained it."

Tags:Internet, websites, stocks

Abstract
This paper argues that the dot.com crash was mostly caused by overvaluation of stock prices and poor oversight by venture capital firms who were too eager to throw money at start-up companies that had the dot-com in their name.

Outline:

A. Price to Earnings Ratios out of adjustment
B. Broadcast.com as an example of nothing for something.
C. Venture Capital Firms 50 million dollar rule.
D. Venture Capital Firm Partners afraid to not invest.
E. Venture capital firms hunger for money spread oversight of newly funded companies very thin.

From the Paper
"Years before the dot-com crash, investment professionals noted that many Internet stocks had P/E ratios in the 30s. Most of the companies behind these highflying stocks had negative or zero earnings. (Perkins 200) A stock analysis statistic in which the current price of a stock (today's last sale price) is divided by the reported actual (or sometimes projected, which would be forecast) earnings per share of the issuing firm; it is also called the "multiple." (Buckman 2001) Market determined P/E ratios include not only earnings and sales growth but also the risk and volatility of the company's performance, the debt-equity structure and other factors. (Buckman 2000)"

Tags:NASDAQ, VC, Bill, Gates

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In this essay, the writer examines N. Venkatraman's article "Five Steps to a Dot-Com Strategy". The writer states that the era of the Dot-Com is upon us and notes that studies now exist that relate the importance of being ready for the Internet boom. The writer then points out that once one has delved into the study, it is easy to determine that the main premise deals with where companies are falling short and what they need to do and look for in order to create and maintain a successful e-commerce business. The writer concludes that the article analyzed provides an effective and informational study.

From the Paper
"The research does not make many references to a need for urgency. The only mention of time is that the significance of the internet was at one point overlooked however now it is evident that the internet is a technological breakthrough that is not going anywhere. It has become pertinent that business become competitive on this platform or else they will be doomed to be out shined by competitors that utilize what the internet has to offer. The linkage between the problem and data is a little obscure. Examples are however given in the data, which allows the reader to connect with the information, and there are companies and some information mentioned in the study however, there are links made available regarding sites that offer further information or support to the information being discussed."

Tags:IT, information, managers, knowledge

Abstract
This paper describes the economic rise and fall of a company and the corresponding economic rise and fall of one of the company's employees. The paper also describes the financial situation in which many dot.com companies found themselves after the dot.com bubble burst and the lessons these companies and their managers learned from the experience.

From the Paper
"The 1990's were the bubble years, the dot.com era, or whatever euphemism suits to describe the booming years of Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Internet businesses. They were years that created millionaires literally overnight. Businesses that began in basements and garages by college kids, suddenly appeared on the trading boards of the Stock Market Exchange. It seemed that anything to do with computers turned to gold. American life became high-tech. Suddenly everyone had cell phones, from professionals to soccer moms and teenagers. And personal computers became a fixture in American homes. The Information Superhighway was up and running and Americans were encouraged, not only by advertisers, but even by the government to travel it. It was "American" to log-on and surf the Web. The computer world was the darling of Wall Street and the express train to wealth and happiness for the American public. Moreover, it was an era of the young."

Tags:college, graduates, tech-savvy, young, desirable, employees, san, francisco, it, stock, option

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This paper looks at the way in which a good business plan may have helped save some of the dot. com failures. The authores uses real examples to considers the reason for these failures. The paper stresses that a business plan may have facilitated better decision-making and strategic planning processes.

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This paper discusses how many believe the root cause of the dot-com crash was overvaluation of stock prices relative to the actual underlying value of the companies themselves. It explains that stocks of internet companies traded at Price-Earning ratios of higher then 30, buoyed by a speculative bubble. When reality set in for investors, many realized that the companies that they were so heavily invested in were little more then money sucking black holes with no upside potential in the near or long term future. It explains how this in turn triggered mass sell-offs of not only internet related stocks but soon impacted the market value of many companies associated with computer, network or telecommunications industries. This paper shows, in fact, that overvaluation was more a symptom of the speculative boom and was only one of the multi-faceted factors that contributed to the internet boom turning into the Internet bust.

From the Paper
"The casualty numbers for dot-com mania are staggering. In the year since April 2000, the technology-heavy Nasdaq has lost more than $2 trillion in value. Once high flying companies like Excite.com, have disappeared off of the charts, busted, bankrupt and out of business. During the last 36 months, 93,079 Internet-related jobs have been cut nationwide (Cassidy 2002). At least 4,854 Internet companies have either been acquired or have shut down in the three years since the dot.com investment boom peaked in the first quarter of 2000. Of these 4,854 plus Internet companies, at least 962 of them have been substantial Internet companies who have either shut down or declared bankruptcy. Unemployment figures for the San Francisco bay area, once the engine that drove the Internet economy to dazzling heights, now hovers around 7 percent (U.S. Department of Labor)."

Tags:stock, value, investment, ratio, internet, hi-tech

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This paper discusses why the dot coms boom eventually collapsed and discusses the dotcom phenomenon as a unique part of modern economic history. The paper further discusses why investors abandoned long held principles of economic growth in order to profit quickly from speculation.

From the Paper
"Dazzled by the lure of rising stock prices and a burgeoning new technology, investors abandoned the long-held principles behind economic growth in order to profit from the tidal wave of speculation that accompanied the growth of the Internet. New stock offerings routinely sold at absurd prices and the relationship between stock prices and company earnings was considered outmoded by many business pundits. The dot com feeding frenzy reached its nadir when America..."

Tags:internet, boom, bust

Abstract
This paper analyzes the reasons for the failure of 'dot com' company WebHouse, showing there to be a basic flaw in their business model. It takes a look at the company from its birth to its demise, analyzing how the business worked, alliances it needed, the competition, critical success factors , and reasons for failure in terms of macro environment, customer value and implementation.

From the Paper
"The Macro Environment: The launch of WebHouse coincided with the peak of the Internet bubble. Investors were very confident about the growth potential of the Internet and large sums of money were being pumped into this "new economy." Mid 2000 however, marked the beginning of the end. Technology stocks began to plunge and there was a complete turn around in the mood of the Investors. Investors were demanding profits and were no longer willing to be patient with the dot com companies. WebHouse was turning in a loss on every transaction, profits were a far off dream. This mood affected the funding efforts of WebHouse adversely and Jay Walker stated this as being the main reason behind the failure of WebHouse4. The company could not raise the capital needed to invest in the present to generate profits in the future4."

Tags:commerce, name, price, priceline, strategy, webhouse

Abstract
This paper examines in detail the failure of the Internet start-up, Boo.com. Several aspects of Boo.com's demise are analyzed, including the overall downfall in the dot.com community at the time of Boo.com's demise, and the company's business plan and approach. The author argues that the management of Boo.com failed to see their business from the customer's point of view. In the end, Boo.com teaches us many lessons about how not to start up a small business.

Outline:
Background
What Went Wrong
The Importance of Branding
Recommendations for the New Start Up
Achieving Balance

From the Paper
"From 1999 to 2001 the Internet developed into a pile of wreckage consisting of dot-com failures. Most of the carnage failed for the same reasons conventional businesses fail. They failed because of poorly conceived business models (Pandya and Dholakia, 2002). The largest number of these failures were and the Business to Customer (B2C) portions of the market. Many of the failed business models did not fail to attract visitors to their site, but rather failed because of the inability to convert visitors to paying customers (Agarwal, Arjona and Lemmer, 2001). Most failures occurred because businesses did not adhere to basic marketing principles, just like any other business that is bound for failure. "

Tags:business, failure, internet, dot, com, website, B2C, business-to-customer, start-ups

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This paper traces the original sound ideas behind Amazon that resulted in the rapid growth of the company, leading to astronomical stock prices when the company went public during the height of the Internet Boom. The author explores that the company's growth-over-profitability mantra caused it to over expand and limited its profitability. The author discusses its current problems, which, because of the fallout of Internet stocks, has resulted in plummeting value and labor problems as the company seeks to cut costs to achieve profitability.