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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

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And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. For example, Amazon’s market is, well, everything.

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

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View All Search Results » Subscribe. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. 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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View All Search Results » |. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Financial News.