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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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

Gust

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.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The dividend tax for all eligible companies in all areas will be set at 15%. ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) had revenue of $43.6 Intel Israel exported $2.7 billion in 2007.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. But when the web 2.0