Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 74 dot com bubble 71 dot com boom 67 dot com 65 bubble burst 55 Great Recession 52 downturn 50 recession 49 accounting scandals 49 economic downturn 49 Silicon Valley 49 Netscape 48 downturns 47 Great Depression 47 recessions 47 startups 47 economic downturns 43 shakeout 43 Y2K 42 housing bubble 42 recessionary 42 credit crunch 40 tanked 39 subprime mortgage crisis 39 Arthur Andersen 39 boom 39 SARS outbreak 39 SARS epidemic 39 Sunnyvale 38 prolonged slump 38 deepening recession 37 Cultural Revolution 37 GFC 37 startup 37 Compaq 37 Depression 36 subprime lending 36 Bartz 36 Jerry Yang 36 bubble 36 Sun Microsystems 36 halcyon days 36 terrorist attacks 36 Hurricane Katrina 36 housing slump 35 selloff 35 tech 35 Sarbanes Oxley Act 35 WorldCom 35 Startups 35 Sunnyvale Calif. 35 venture capitalists 35 Quattrone 35 cratered 34 subprime mortgage 34 heyday 34 PeopleSoft 34 venture capitalist 34 slump 34 Nasdaq Composite 34 Fiorina 34 Sarbanes Oxley 34 Nineties 34 Mercury Interactive 34 slowdown 34 Google Nasdaq GOOG 34 meltdown 34 irrational exuberance 34 Lehman Bros. 34 Semel 34 precipitous decline 34 Siebel Systems 34 subprime 34 Mountain View Calif. 34 Nasdaq composite index 34 Palo Alto 34 Wall Street 34 eMachines 34 Gold Rush 34 Hewlett Packard Co. 34 Celtic Tiger 33 stockmarket 33 hurricanes Katrina 33 Google GOOG 33 nose dive 33 Mark Hurd 33 serial entrepreneur 33 3Par 33 Quote Chart 33 VCs 33 Yahoo 33 nosedive 33 hiring freezes 33 Opsware 33 Nasdaq Composite Index 32 deepest recession 32 McNealy 32 retrenching 32 Nasdaq composite 32 techies 32 sub prime 32 mainframes