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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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View All Search Results » |. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Scandal Shakes Trading Firm Peregrine Financial Group filed for bankruptcy as regulators scrambled to track down about $215 million of customer money allegedly missing from the firm. Financial News.

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Successful Entrepreneurs Think This Way

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Would you have thought that this startup, which initially faced heavy competition from other search engines like Yahoo!, Would you have bet in 2004 that Apple would develop sensational products and become the world's largest company based on market capitalization? Alta Vista, Lycos, and others would eventually dominate the industry?

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The 12 Strangest Celebrity Businesses

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MC Hammer’s search engine. His search engine, called WireDoo, is still not ready for a beta release, but Hammer says it has a “deep search” function that will make it better than Google by bringing up topics related to your keywords. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.