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

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They’re going to do big things in search, ecommerce, software platforms, entertainment, and more over the next decade if they execute the right way and will blow the stock price out of the water if even one of those things works out. The market just opens and the issuing companies sell their stock directly to the market.

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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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