2. What is the dot com bubble
The dot-com bubble was a historic
speculative bubble covering roughly
1997 - 2000 during which stock markets
in industrialized nations saw their equity
value rise rapidly from growth in the
Internet sector and related fields.
3. Why is dot com bubble happened
The dotcom bubble grew out of a
combination of the presence of
speculative or fad-based investing, the
abundance of venture capital funding for
startups and the failure of dotcoms to
turn a profit.
4. What happened with the
dot com bubble
Dotcom Bubble NasdaqEventually, many
of these startup companies attracted the at
tention of venture capitalists who were in
terested in financing the startups, taking
them public and, hopefully, reaping
massive profits.
5. What happened with the
dot com bubble(2)
Startups began to pay their employees with
company shares with the intention that the
shares would become very valuable when
company eventually went public.
6. What happened with the
dot com bubble(3)
The majority of the software companies
that were started during this era were
located in Silicon Valley, near San
Francisco, which became a technology
Mecca. PCs became even more popular in
the mid-1990s, when blockbuster PC
games such as Sim City and Duke Nukem
were launched and inspired many young
people to become tech savvy.
7. Corporate movement
Investors poured money into internet
startups during the 1990s in the hope that
those companies would one day become
profitable, and many investors and venture
capitalists abandoned a cautious approach
for fear of not being able to cash in on the
growing use of the internet.
8. How did companies people suffer
the Internet boom is sometimes meant to
refer to the steady commercial growth of
the Internet with the advent of the World
Wide Web, as exemplified by the first
release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993,
and continuing through the 1990s.
9. Affected by dot com bubble
The height of the boom was characterized
by enormous increases in stock prices,
and especially the prices of Internet
related assets. The bust saw the rapid
decline of most of the same prices.
