{"376251":{"#nid":"376251","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"15 years after the dot com bust, startup fever returns to Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScorched by the dot-com bust, investors \u2014 venture capital and angel \u2014 abandoned early-stage investing with the swiftness of a fair-weather Falcons fan. Startups with no revenue \u2014 and often no product \u2014 were seen as not worth the hassle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFifteen years is a long time. Memories of imploding portfolio companies are being washed away by valuations frothier than Dom Perignon. Billion-dollar exits for capital-light Web startups (think\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EInstagram\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWhatsapp\u003C\/strong\u003E) have investors bellying back to the bar.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-10 10:18:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:00","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"breakthrough cases","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/print-edition\/2014\/03\/21\/15-years-after-the-dot-com-bust-startup-fever.html?page=all","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}