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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings.

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9 Business Acronyms You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, are the set of rules that govern financial accounting in businesses. IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. Most recently, the mass media has been concerned with the Facebook IPO. Maybe double-check that contract.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Between day one and your first confrontations with those issues, particularly if you’ve raised any outside capital, you will have formed a board and stocked it with people you can really get to work on your behalf. The World will conclude this list for today.

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

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This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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11 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

This concept was explored in cinematic form in the film ‘Minority Report’ (2002) in which people are served advertisements in public places based on their personal profiles on an individual basis. 6- Social media. Your social media presence is essentially your “modern day business card”. Photo Credit: Rio Rocket.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. cents or 6.25 In my view, this is a myopic analysis for one simple reason.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. All you need is for one of the new enterprise companies to completely whiff a quarter and their stock will collapse and then everybody will get all freaked out. Stick a fork in it.