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Bubble
1. ___________________________ is the founder of Amazon.com.
2. ___________________________ is the founder of eBay.
3. ___________________________ (Gordon Moore, founder of Intel) states that the speed and
power of an integrated circuit doubles every 18 months.
4. ___________________________ (Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3COM) says every new node
added to the network increases the number of users exponentially.
5. Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law, along with ignorance, rampant enthusiasm, unbridled
greed means a fantastic ___________________________ is right around the corner.
6. Other breakthrough technologies that created a bubble include:
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___________________________
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___________________________
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___________________________
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___________________________
7. Amazon’s strategy “______________________________________________________”, was
that profits should be sacrificed temporarily for rapid growth.
8. ______________________________________________________ locks (encrypts) the box
(information) with the intended recipient’s pad lock (code).
 Neither the sender nor anyone else can open the box (message).
 Only the intended recipient has the key to open the box (message).
9. Public Key Cryptography is the lynchpin of _________________________________________.
10. eBay’s early success was due to people buying and selling ___________________________.
11. The start of the bubble began with ______________________________________________
predicting huge growth in stock prices for Amazon, eBay and other “.com” companies.
12. The democratization of the stock market gave everyone the ability to buy and sell stocks
from the comfort of their own homes.
 The people were called: ___________________________.
13. Venture capitalists were ______________________________________________________,
most of the .coms were fail but one in a group might make it big.
14. Money managers on Wall Street ________________________________________________
to purchase .com stock even if they thought these companies would fail.
15. The other boom besides the Internet book was the boom in _________________________.
16. Fiber optic cables can send ____________________________________________________
or more.
17. Data is directed around the Internet by ___________________________. (Not mentioned in
the video.)
18. ___________________________, April 14th, 2000, NASDAQ fell by 25%.
19. Out of the Internet bubble came:
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Fewer but more ___________________________ Internet companies.
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The ___________________________ was built over 5 years instead of 15 years.
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Brick and mortar companies become ___________________________ about the Web.