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[Singapore] Westin Returns, Sets Up In Central Business District

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It’s been over a decade since Westin left Singapore’s shores; the hotel chain sold off its two properties – The Westin Stamford and The Westin Plaza – to SwissĂ´tel and Raffles Hotel in 2002, after the brand’s own acquisition by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in 1998.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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

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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). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

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Category Collapse

Feld Thoughts

If you lived through the Internet-bubble between 1999 and 2002 you know this cycle well. Out of this mess came several long-term companies and a huge number of pennies on the dollar type acquisitions. And, you know that the companies that survived it were the ones with very strong fundamental businesses (e.g.

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We Were Right – Just a Decade Early

Feld Thoughts

We were all investing in Internet-related stuff at the end of the 1990s. Jerry and Fred had one of the most successful VC funds during this time period until the Internet bubble burst and blew us all up for a while. 2002 was the Trough of Disillusionment. 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Internet and Online Business. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Human Resources (HR). Advertising.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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