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

Gust

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. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. I didn’t feel we were differentiated enough and, at the same time, I was hearing all this buzz about social media. So in 2015, we launched Carusele to apply digital media targeting to influencer marketing. Thanks to Ira S.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Building a scalable, profitable, customer acquisition engine. What did you take from idea on the back of a napkin to liquidity event? Cassie Boorn , Social Media Coordinator You could try putting a listing up at a site that hires people specifically for Start Ups. Building and managing a technical team.

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Startup Resources

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Social Media Tracking/Marketing. great web customer acquisition tutorials. analytics for social media and online. real-time event tracking. social media and email marketing. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). code spaces (svn). CVSDude (svn). github (git only). PeashootApp.