1.   Dagres argues that in the bubble days, companies got funded that never should have been started in the first place.

2.   In some ways, that move has been a throwback to the good old bubble days.

3.   The current retraction is seen as a hangover from the heady bubble days, when VCs disbursed cash willy-nilly to poorly conceived e-commerce and telecommunications companies.

4.   You can see the problem that poses with pole day looming Saturday and bubble day to follow.