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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. .” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Support.com — On 2.5m

IPO

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity

The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

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. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

Cofounder

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete

StartUpRoar

The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

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