O'Brien: How dot-com start-ups have changed 10 years later - San Jose Mercury News

O'Brien: How dot-com start-ups have changed 10 years later
San Jose Mercury News
When I heard Pets.com was about to shut down in late 2000, I shelled out $40 for one of its ubiquitous talking sock puppets, thinking I'd like to have my ...

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Caution puts limit on tech excesses - Financial Times

Caution puts limit on tech excesses
Financial Times
There was Pets.com, which raised almost $100m while trying to convince people to buy cat litter online and whose sock-puppet mascot featured in an ad during ...

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Lessons of a Dow Decade - Wall Street Journal

Lessons of a Dow Decade
Wall Street Journal
Then we had the opposite mentality—companies like Pets.com were going to fundamentally reshape the economy in the new millennium through a nirvana of ...

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Ten Years Later, The Internet Bubble Burst Still Resonates - Investor's Business Daily (blog)


Investor's Business Daily (blog)
Ten Years Later, The Internet Bubble Burst Still Resonates
Investor's Business Daily (blog)
... by Pets.com with its goofy mascot, Sock Puppet, which appeared at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1999 and in a Super Bowl commercial in 2000. ...

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Glenn Beck: Ready for a New Economic Plan, America? - FOXNews

Glenn Beck: Ready for a New Economic Plan, America?
FOXNews
It's like the creators of Pets.com coming to us and going, yes, we have an idea — Pets.com. No! There aren't. You know, we see to toy with adoption of ...

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Therese Poletti's Tech Tales - MarketWatch

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales
MarketWatch
Or should we just blame the investors themselves for loading up on the over-hyped stocks of Webvan, Pets.com, the Globe.com and VA Linux, to name just a few ...
The wackiest and weirdest moments of the bubble Middle East North Africa Financial Network

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A decade later, lessons in the Nasdaq collapse - Reuters

A decade later, lessons in the Nasdaq collapse
Reuters
Firms from the now infamous pet supply retailer pets.com to the long-forgotten online marketing company LifeMinders.com forked over more than $2 million ...

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Bubble, bubble, boom and burst: how we got it wrong 10 years ago - TelecomTV

Bubble, bubble, boom and burst: how we got it wrong 10 years ago
TelecomTV
It turned out that just because your online company managed to register 'pets.com' it didn't mean you were automatically going to win a substantial share of ...

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The Four Scariest Words Of Markets: “It's Different This Time” - Liberty Papers

The Four Scariest Words Of Markets: “It's Different This Time”
Liberty Papers
Webvan and pets.com were rejected straight off by investors rather than soaring against all reason then dying in an unreasonably sudden collapse. ...

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Dot Com Crash Survivors & Casualties - WallStNation.com

Dot Com Crash Survivors & Casualties
WallStNation.com
But some of the losers include Pets.com, GeoCities and Webvan. Minyanville Staff summarized it best, saying “…considering what the economy has been through ...

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