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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. M&A returned.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

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The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet. Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet. Low-cost production. That’s my moat.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. So I still had to outlay $50-80k for hardware costs. Processing.

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5 Ways to Keep Your Small Business Growing

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million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. These include the hiring of virtual assistants, which lowers operational costs while increasing the level of productivity. . By outsourcing services, the small business owner can capitalize on comparative advantages in costs, particularly labor. . From a company worth $1.6

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.

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Bitcoin Emerges as New Standard in Post-COVID Economy?

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What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. Social network by IOV Labs, the company behind RSK.

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