Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 73 dot com bust 71 dot com bubble 70 bubble burst 66 dot com boom 56 dot com 55 dotcom 50 housing bubble burst 50 Great Recession 48 tanked 47 housing bubble 46 recessions 46 startups 45 recession 44 Great Depression 44 Netscape 43 Nineties 43 accounting scandals 42 downturn 42 IPOs 42 cratered 41 downturns 41 JDS Uniphase 41 tech 40 precipitously 40 boom 39 nineties 39 valuations 39 irrational exuberance 39 Silicon Valley 39 Y2K 39 economic downturns 38 #s [002] 38 selloff 38 recessionary 38 plummeted 37 Arthur Andersen 37 bubble 37 economic downturn 37 nosedived 37 peaked 37 stockmarket 37 '#s [003] 37 credit crunch 36 VCs 36 nose dive 36 biotechs 36 invaded Kuwait 36 shakeout 36 shriveled 36 stock 36 retrenching 36 bankrupted 36 Venture capitalists 36 venture capital 36 WorldCom 36 imploded 35 gain traction 35 overbuilding 35 Depression 35 mortgage defaults 35 Nasdaq Composite 35 startup 35 Lehman Brothers 35 leveraged buyouts 35 nosedive 35 Silicon Graphics 35 plummet 35 Wall Street 34 Valuations 34 halcyon days 34 IPO 34 Sarbanes Oxley Act 34 steep declines 34 decade 34 precipitous drop 34 Sarbanes Oxley 34 heyday 34 leveraged 34 venture capitalists 33 sharemarket 33 inflection point 33 venture capitalist 33 Lehman Bros. 33 intraday 33 tanking 33 highly leveraged 33 subprime mortgage crisis 33 indexes 33 Eighties 33 Sputnik 33 nest eggs 33 Nasdaq composite index 33 shrunk 33 stagnated 33 SARS outbreak 33 SARS epidemic 33 overvalued 33 Gulf War 33 Startups 33 realized 33 bottomed