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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Founding Date: 2004. Interesting to note that Hafner and English own common stock but also made meaningful investments in the Series A & B rounds. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Kayak Software Corporation. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA. Series A Preferred.

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

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This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Capital Market Climate Change

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3/31/2004: 31.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. As if the common stock were actually the same as preferred stock. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/30/2012: 15.5.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

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Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. As a result, the amount these employees pay the company for these exercises is non-trivial… in 2011 these common stock purchases generated about $1 billion in cash for Facebook. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

3/31/2004: 31.6 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. As if the common stock were actually the same as preferred stock. 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3