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Behind Every Great Product

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But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The New York Times describes Hipcamp as “ The Sharing Economy Visits the Backcountry.”

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

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There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon. 1999-2000 51.6%

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Usability News 2.2