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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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Consider the dot-com bust in the early 2000s: Investors who committed a lump sum near the market peak may have experienced a painful and prolonged recovery.
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Wes Moss, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Gravity's Pull to India Consider two IIT graduates in 1995, both ranked at the top of their computer science classes as the dot-com boom was just beginning.
—Gabriel Snyder, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
As companies report rapid user growth and engagement, investors chase the next big thing, and result is a market environment reminiscent of the dot-com era, where hype and inflated metrics risk overshadowing real business fundamentals.
—Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 22 July 2025
The president’s signature tax law allows a long-standing business deduction for the cost of food provided to employees to expire, imperiling a workplace perk popularized during Silicon Valley’s dot-com boom that is now an emblem of modern office culture.
—Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 21 July 2025
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Wes Moss, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Gravity's Pull to India Consider two IIT graduates in 1995, both ranked at the top of their computer science classes as the dot-com boom was just beginning.
—Gabriel Snyder, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
As companies report rapid user growth and engagement, investors chase the next big thing, and result is a market environment reminiscent of the dot-com era, where hype and inflated metrics risk overshadowing real business fundamentals.
—Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 22 July 2025
The president’s signature tax law allows a long-standing business deduction for the cost of food provided to employees to expire, imperiling a workplace perk popularized during Silicon Valley’s dot-com boom that is now an emblem of modern office culture.
—Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 21 July 2025
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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