dot-com bubble
Nineties tech frenzy
The dot-com bubble was a period of wild speculation in internet-related stocks during the late 1990s, peaking around 2000 before collapsing.
Companies with little revenue commanded enormous valuations simply by adding ".com" to their names.
The bubble's burst wiped out trillions in market value and bankrupted countless startups.
He made a fortune during the dot-com bubble, then lost it all.
New business enterprise
- IPOFirst public stock offering
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- e-commerceInternet-based buying and selling
- NASDAQElectronic securities exchange
valuation · angel investor · growth · expansion · irrational exuberance · stock options · day trader · market cap
Rated beyond actual worth
- hypeExaggerated promotional fanfare
- FOMOAcronym for exclusion anxiety
- pump and dumpFraudulent stock inflation scheme
- tulip maniaIrrational asset price craze
get-rich-quick · hot money · frothy · stock manipulation · insider trading · analysts · price target · retail investor
Sudden violent impact
- collapseSudden structural failure
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- meltdownCatastrophic loss of control
- correctionFixing of mistakes
downturn · liquidation · layoffs · write-off · shakeout · dead pool · fire sale · pink slip
Final twentieth-century decade
- 2000sFirst decade, 2000s
- Silicon ValleyBay Area tech corridor
- Y2KCalendar-rollover computer problem
- AOLEarly internet provider
Netscape · GeoCities · AltaVista · Enron · Alan Greenspan · paradigm shift
startup
New business enterprise
- IPOFirst public stock offering
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- e-commerceInternet-based buying and selling
NASDAQ · valuation · angel investor · growth · expansion · irrational exuberance · stock options · day trader · market cap · going public
overvalued
Rated beyond actual worth
- hypeExaggerated promotional fanfare
- FOMOAcronym for exclusion anxiety
- pump and dumpFraudulent stock inflation scheme
tulip mania · get-rich-quick · hot money · frothy · stock manipulation · insider trading · analysts · price target · retail investor · irrational exuberance
crash
Sudden violent impact
- collapseSudden structural failure
- bankruptcyLegal status when insolvent
- meltdownCatastrophic loss of control
correction · downturn · liquidation · layoffs · write-off · shakeout · dead pool · fire sale · pink slip · Chapter 11
1990s
Final twentieth-century decade
- 2000sFirst decade, 2000s
- Silicon ValleyBay Area tech corridor
- Y2KCalendar-rollover computer problem
AOL · Netscape · GeoCities · AltaVista · Enron · Alan Greenspan · paradigm shift
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- 2000siPhone, Wii, MySpace, YouTube, Hurricane Katrina
- economic historystock market crash, Industrial Revolution, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard
- modern economicsGDP, GDP growth, recession, inflation, interest rates
- Financial Historystock crash, bull market, bear market, Black Monday, Great Depression
- market bubblestulip mania, asset bubbles, speculative bubbles, tulip mania, irrational exuberance
dot-com bubbledot-com crash
2000 internet stock collapse
dot-com bust · market crash · bear market · market collapse · recession
dot-com bubblevalue investing
Buying underpriced stocks fundamentally