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

Agile VC

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. In fact penetration in Chile, Turkey, and Venezuela is estimated at >80% which is astonishing.

IPO 100
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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

equity debate. Start-Up Chile: $40k to Live There and Start a Company - Ben Casnocha: The Blog , August 14, 2010 Governments round the world are trying to stimulate entrepreneurship. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Bless you, chile! Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. If you do, youll be able to get a lower hourly rate in exchange for some equity. This is really helpful, Derek.