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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market. 1990-1998 13.3% 1999-2000 51.6%

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

In essense, let the market design the product. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. New Attitude to Acquisition Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I changed the design a few times. The person who owns this blog is Michael Pollack, and he was a web designer and small business fan. It’s very simple.