In 2000, at the height of the stock market, Mr. Wasserstein sold his firm, Wasserstein Perella & Company, for $1.37 billion in stock to Dresdner Bank of Germany.
LaBranche went public in 1999 at the height of the stock market boom, and its shares reached a high of $51 before beginning a downward trend.
"I admit that we spent up to our resources, even as those resources were climbing at the height of the stock market," Henry Fogel, the orchestra president, said.
But by the end of the decade it was in trouble after it embarked on a rapid national expansion and went public at the height of the stock market boom.
To ImClone supporters, that offer is a validation of the company's cancer drug, Erbitux, whose potential they say had been obscured during the height of the stock trading scandal.
The Democrats argue that the administration's forecasts are unrealistic because they assume that individual and corporate tax receipts will return to the lofty levels at the height of the stock market bubble.
Mr. Carey, with his experience in Portfolio, a Condé Nast publication that arrived in 2007, at the height of a stock bubble, and folded in less than two years, is mindful of the high expectations a new magazine carries.
In 2007, these kinds of offerings looked like cash-outs at the height of the stock markets, as well as efforts by the private equity firms' founders for greater capital liquidity.
Last week, BusinessWeek magazine added to his woes by claiming The Weinstein Company would not move into profit this year, as was originally forecast at the height of the stock market boom, when Weinstein employed Goldman Sachs to raise $1.2bn from private investors to support its launch.
We examine the effect of patenting on the survival prospects of 356 Internet-related firms that made an initial public offering on the NASDAQ at the height of the stock market bubble of the late 1990s.
