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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). All the other stuff Yahoo! It’s not as though nobody’s heard of Facebook before, yet Yahoo!

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. In 2018, Live Current Media bought it for $5 million. He owns a substantial amount of shares in the company. Today, he is worth $1.5

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. (Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. (Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod

crowdSPRING Blog

Rodriguez has found himself on the less-than-flattering end of media stories; everything from his marriage, to his relationships with teammates, to his on-field antics have been the subject of national coverage, typically in a negative light.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

crowdSPRING Blog

Notable Clients: Uber, Alibaba, Zigbee Alliance, GrubHub, The Metropolitan Art Museum, Spotify, Orange, The Hyatt, Virgin Media, (RED), AOL, Target, Unilever, GE, PwC, Microsoft, Google, Skype, Expedia, FutureLearn. MCFaul+Day was founded in 2002 by John McFaul in Portsmouth, England. courtesy of mucho. McFaul+Day.