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Posts on ‘August 30th, 2007’

Bubble Factors: Real Change, Easy Credit, and Self-Interested Lies

Look at “Bubble 1.0″ (as it’s known in the relatively young tech industry: the 1997-2000 tech-media-telecom bubble and the general IPO / equity bubble that went along with it). 1. A real change occurred — the uptake of Internet technology — and created some initial successes (think Netscape IPO). This got folks thinking about how [...]