During dot com boom, how many internet companies were formed?

Hello bboymsjee!


I located a REPORT: ?Internet Companies Three Years After the Height
of the Bubble? which contains  a great deal of relevant data.

  
?Three years after the peak of the dot com frenzy, nearly 5,000
Internet companies have either been acquired or shut down in a massive
sector consolidation.?


?At least 4,854 Internet companies have either been acquired or have
shut down in the three years since the dot com investment boom peaked
in Q1 of 2000.?

 
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Internet Company M&A and Shutdowns
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Q1, 2000 to Present  Acquired  Shutdown 
2000                  1,446    283 
2001                  1,283    501 
2002                  1,085    170 
2003                     78      8 
TOTAL                 3,892    962 
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Source: Webmergers, Inc.

WebMergers
http://www.webmergers.com/data/article.php?id=67


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Internet Company M&A and Shutdowns by Quarter
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Q1, 2000 to Present 

Quarter    Shutdowns   M&A Deals   M&A Dollars ($bil) 
Q1, 2003*      8           78        $0.6 
Q4, 2002      30          212        $5.4 
Q3, 2002      31          228        $5.5 
Q2, 2002      44          312        $7.5 
Q1, 2002      65          333        $4.6 
Q4, 2001      88          313        $46.3 
Q3, 2001      80          305        $8.6 
Q2, 2001     167          317        $12.2 
Q1, 2001     166          348        $11.7 
Q4, 2000     157          408        $10.0 
Q3, 2000      68          394        $13.2 
Q2, 2000      50          379        $21.7 
Q1, 2000       8          265        $52.8 
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Source: Webmergers, Inc.
http://www.webmergers.com/data/article.php?id=67


Search terms used:
Internet companies +dot-com boom
Internet companies formed +dot-com boom

I hope you find this helpful!  If anything is unclear with my answer,
please ask for clarification.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 18 Nov 2003 17:23 PST

In 1999 alone, almost 1700 Internet companies were created (Price
Waterhouse Coopers data).
(Source: sxsw.com, January 2001) 
http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:wCN9htCbOJwJ:www.hospit-hall.com/hhuk/infonews/detail.cfm%3FID%3D264+%22internet+companies+were+created%22+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 18 Nov 2003 17:55 PST

According to an article in Wired News dated March 15, 2001, 17,000
dot.coms were funded in 1999.

?Penton pointed out that while 140 dot-coms went bust last year,
that's out of a pool of 17,000 that were funded in 1999. About 31,000
jobs were lost in the closures, but the dot-com bubble did create 2.3
million over a five-year period. ?

Wired News 
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42414,00.html

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 18 Nov 2003 20:18 PST

According to a publication by the Swiss Consulting Group, an estimated
12,000 new dotcoms were created between 1996 and 2000.


?Only in the United States, venture capital funds financed new dotcoms
for over $200 billion in 1999 and 2000. Around 12,000 new dotcoms were
created between 1996 and 2000.?
Waters, Richard (2003), ?Living With the Bear: Silicon Valley Adjusts
Its Expectations,? The Financial Times, February 23.

Swiss Consulting Group
http://www.swissconsultinggroup.com/docs/Occasional11-2003-03-03.pdf