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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. The “value” case goes like this: A) Valuation Net of Cash – Zynga’s market cap sits at around $2.2-2.3B

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Net, the author wants to insult entrepreneurs and doesnt understand what a really good idea actually is. -- Vivtek 215 days ago | link. Id then allow digg style voting up of stories in order to bubble things up to the top page of the site. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Once you’ve done that – then.

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

blog.expensify.com

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!).

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