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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Yet while we had plenty of language and tools for execution, we had none for search. The result?

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million.

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Project: The Story of Jeff Bezos' $250,000 Investment into Google in 1998

Growthink Blog

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 million shares of Google stock. Talk about leverage.

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

Reid Hoffman

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. Plenty of headroom there!

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. You’re on AOL!&# I don’t think she really understood the difference. Enter Facebook.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet. An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Virtual Stock Exchange. 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. Stock Quotes. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock.