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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.

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

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View All Search Results » Subscribe. 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., Advanced Search. SmartMoney.

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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. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4%