Dot.com to Dot.Bomb

                                               Dot.com to Dot.Bomb 
It is the personal journey through the technology revolution of the 90’s to today. It was explained in lecture by using the animal  props and horse races made up of plastic dinosaurs.
The discussion includes the companies that were leading in the beginnings. The one of the top companies  that mentioned in the short back story and world’s top companies with most users.
  • Prodigy(owned by Sears and IBM) - 1.1 Million
  • CompuServe (owned by H&R Block)-1 Million
  • Genie (owned by General Electric)- 200,000
  • AOL - 150,000
  • Delphi -100,000
Prodigy was the top company with the highest followers at that time.
In 95 - 97  Boom!
In 1995, Netscape under the leadership of Jim Clarke and a student named Marc Andresson went public and immediately became one of the most valuable companies in the world.
The period of 1995-1999 was considered as the Boom period, where many new companies were launched and was a good time of period for most  of the companies.
He also explains us about funding and mentioned the options  we can choose for funding are : family and friends, seed round, first round, second round, Mezzanine, Public offerings.
The period from 2000-202 was considered as Bust where companies had losses and had a downturn in the stock market and a whole lot of companies go bust.
Then back in 2002 was a crawling back period where companies tried to get back . 

The last stage for this presentation ends st Bonus stage, where it shows many companies had good endings.

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