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

www.theverge.com

Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all hoarding mountains of cash, and Mark Zuckerberg has shown that he isn’t afraid to put his newfound riches to work, with numerous acquisition in the past few months (Instagram, Glancee, and Face.com to name a few). Capital will be harder to come by, and founders will be more open to sell.

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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

No, I am the troll who who stood proudly on the APC until a man who was nothing more than an egotistical and maniacal bully named Clifford Hicks proved once and for all that IMVU only cared about IMVU - and not its community. It's nice to "see" that human beings are actually behind a name. I'm not just any troll.

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