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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

Gust

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Technical people can smell a fake from a mile away. Arve Systad.

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5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!)

crowdSPRING Blog

In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken. And skyrocketing sales for the new chicken sandwich BK was hawking. That crazy chicken. Burger King’s brave new world.

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