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

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Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn. If these terms sound onerous and lopsided, it’s because they are.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

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Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Cohen asks. Impact Tech: the intentional use of technology and science to benefit people and the planet.