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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

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While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Are they, were they, and the SEC were when a few brave souls were warning about Madoff to deaf ears?

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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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.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In 2004 I began blogging. They go, “Oh, wait a sec, I could actually sell my website,” and when you offer $500 and the website might be getting 1,000 unique visitors a day, and you can get those 1,000 people into your sales funnel that you have to produce income, it could be worth to you tens of thousands of dollars.