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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. After that it quickly gained credibility and spread throughout government, and corporate America. Amazon’s motivation in buying into Acquia is a bit more self serving.

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

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This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Two reasons, we like to have some base experience and.Net makes a great language to hammer out fast solutions that work and are reasonably secure. I have been a fan of PHP despite is misgivings and major security flaws.

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