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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

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And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Finance Jobs |.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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