No longer is he as open-handed in financing dot-coms that might develop software that would be useful to Eastman.
When the Nasdaq plunged that day, investors signaled they no longer would finance dot-coms that sought to grow at all costs, ignoring, at least temporarily, the concept that successful businesses take in more than they spend.
New York has been hit so hard by unemployment, particularly in the finance and dot-com industries that drive trendy night life.
In many ways, Robertson Stephens helped build and finance the dot-com bubble, taking dozens of Internet companies public -- from eBay to eToys.com, which has since closed.
Kris Brawn, a San Diego-based project manager for Northrop Grumman who works on software for the B-2 bomber, left his job two years ago for a finance-related dot-com, but returned in January after just 13 months.
And when Westergren was trying to raise a second round of financing after the dot-com bust, most everyone involved in the business of music and technology had come to believe that any recommendation system needed to be able to handle millions of songs, instantly.
But government incentives and success stories from the United States changed all that, giving rise to what some say has been a gold rush of dot-com financing.
Because Mr. Romney held his speech in downtown Boston, not far from his campaign headquarters in the North End, even more of his aides, advisers and finance team members dotted the crowd.
Because he held his speech in downtown Boston, not far from his campaign headquarters in the North End, even more of his aides, advisers, and finance team members dotted the crowd.
In fact, however, Baidu's financing is as American as the dot-coms of Internet 1.0.
"The fact that Enron became a dot-com, financed itself like a dot-com, and then suffered a demise like a dot-com," he said, "is one of the central parts of this story".
