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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone. link] davidburkus Good post.

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The (Postponed) End of the Dollar Era

Harvard Business Review

of GDP in 2011. is a big shortfall — one that takes hundreds of billions of dollars of new foreign capital every year to finance — and the gap shows no signs of shrinking further. Treasuries, the dollar has been on a downward trend in international currency markets since 2002. Still, 3.1%

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

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Tough Dilemmas for Companies on Campaign Spending

Harvard Business Review

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Should we support generally moderate candidates who can compromise on major structural issues facing the U.S.,

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

It takes tragedies occurring in order for the system to stand back, take focus and fix what is wrong. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Reacting quickly, Google regained control of the Android system by restricting access to difficult-to-replicate services such as mapping and by shifting important application programming interfaces (APIs) to the proprietary Google Play Store. It was the digital payment system eBay pushed before it gave up and acquired PayPal.