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Early Internet Investors Recall Heady Promise of Dot-Com Bubble and Post-9/11 Bust
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variety.com9/11 terrorist attacks marked the end of the first frenzied wave of investment and hype about dot-com ventures that brought Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood together in the pursuit of riches, innovation and creativity.
Not always in that order.During the half-dozen years that stretched from the first internet-era IPO to grab investors’ attention — the August 1995 debut of web browser Netscape — through the attacks of Sept.
11, 2001, myriad startups were hatched with the ambitious goal of bringing original content to computer screens.Most of the ventures flamed out with not much to show for them.
But some of the investors, entrepreneurs and creatives who were active in that period say the rush of investment, technical R&D and the.
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