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After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

www.theverge.com

The market just opens and the issuing companies sell their stock directly to the market. No privileged allocations handed out at a guesstimated ‘issue price’, no closed roadshows for the privileged few, no private briefings for the fat cats. the poor individual investor). June 19, 2012. June 19, 2012.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

When one agent acts on behalf of multiple principals, the multiple principals have to agree on the agent’s objectives, but face a collective action problem in governance, as individual principals may lobby the agent or otherwise act in their individual interests rather than in the collective interest of all principals.”

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In a history of totalitarian governments, there's one common thing. You, as a company, also need to be profitable to remain as a business. A grown up people who fought their basic rights, can't stay aside, or be silent, when they see those rights are stomped down. It's not all about communicating. It's all about respect.

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