Bubble Quote by Eric Ries

When the internet came up, scores of companies were created. But many of them collapsed during the dot.com bubble.

— Ashok Soota

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

— Charles Stross

While still in college, I started my first Internet company - American Information Systems - a dial-up Internet provider in the Internet's formative years.

— Jared Polis

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very…

— Marc Andreessen

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high…

— Vivek Wadhwa

I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.

— Noam Chomsky

During the last years of university I started an online business with a couple of friends selling domain names - we started by cybersquatting…

— Antoine Arnault

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

— David Sze

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

— Mark Zuckerberg

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

— David Tang

Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com... is always up there,…

— Julie Wainwright