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Don’t Expect New Crowdfunding Rules to Create a Startup Boom

Harvard Business Review

After all, the legislation, passed in 2012 but stuck in SEC rule making until now, was intended to boost America’s entrepreneurial economy. is generating plenty of high-potential startups, they argued, yet there is a problem: These companies don’t seem to be scaling or reaching an exit, such as an IPO or an acquisition.

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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. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

And though the idea of VCs abandoning cleantech has been around since at least early 2012 , I was initially skeptical. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

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When an Activist Hedge Fund Thinks a Company’s Salaries Are Too High, Who’s Right?

Harvard Business Review

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. Finance Tech industry Technology' attempt to change the leadership and strategic direction of the company. Maybe it’s both.

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