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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. GM was first a holding company when it was established in 1908 by William C. #4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Thanks to Jason Baker, Emerald House Cleaning ! #17- 17- General Motors.

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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). It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo!

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

Pascal's View

1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 Teva, Israel’s largest company, has a market value of about $56 billion. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6

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