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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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And they might give a premium if the team has been around a longer period of time, has built some hard-to-build proprietary technology or has some customer traction. If the money comes from professional investors it usually has a “liquidation preference” meaning that their money comes out before the founders or common stock. (If

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

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How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. billion in cash profit last year.

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