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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO. The person or business on the other end of an insider trade is at an automatic disadvantage. This brings us back to Mr.

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Every Generation Learns The Same Lessons

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My foundational moment, where I really learned the lesson, happened during the collapse of the Internet bubble in 2000 and 2001. If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Capitulation?

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

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As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA. In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.