| Just because a dot-com business has a well-known or attractive brand name is no assurance of success. |
| We've come into this when e-learning has a bad reputation thanks to the dot-com bust with its explosion of fly-by-night operations. |
| Sure, dot-com advertising is down, the number of newbies hitting the Internet has reached a plateau, and personal computer sales have fallen. |
| It turns out the dot-com boom and bust aren't just anomalies of runaway capitalism. |
| Almost as soon as Romney ended his day-to-day role at Bain, the dot-com boom crashed and the economy went into recession. |
| The dot-com bust, the recession of 2001, and the corporate crime wave and accounting scandals of 2002 brought the party to an unceremonious end. |
