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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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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 So why not announce big, hairy audacious goals on recruiting the best mobile talent with sign-on bonuses and retention plans?

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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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