How the Birth of Venture Capitalism Powered the Dot-Com Bubble

Wall Street has infamously had its share of ugly Octobers, so Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp chose this month to offer their listeners a special treat: a four-part series on the history of market crashes in the United States.

In this Motley Fool Answers podcast, guest and former Fool Morgan Housel leads the discussion on a topic near and dear to the hearts of online-based operations like the Fool: the dot-com bubble and the subsequent long and painful crash. But as bad as it was for investors in the stock market, it really stung the nascent venture capital industry.

A full transcript follows the video.

Source: Fool.com