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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Asia. Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif.,

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. My Journal.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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Social Media. The front page of the Internet. To have been responsible for funding and nuturing something that legitimately calls itself the “front page of the Internet”, the Y Combinator program has to have done something right. was born and generated a lot of media interest. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

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Why You Must Change Your Content Marketing Approach

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I produced my first eBook in 2004 or so and now feature ten, including some I’ve licensed from other writers. Social media has obviously opened new doors in terms of sharing and generating new forms of content. Social Media Examiner. Social Media Examiner. Cindy King. Director of Editorial. Shelly Kramer.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

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While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0