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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. ==. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. A vast majority of people are very dependent on their mobile devices.