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How Twitter Hype Helps Startups

The Horizons Tracker

The valuations placed on each venture by the VC were assessed via something known as the pre-money valuation, while the long-term success of each venture was measured by the exit for the firm, whether via acquisition or IPO. Despite this, Twitter activity did influence the VC investments.

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.

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Business Should Focus on Sociality, Not Social "Media"

Harvard Business Review

Which is akin to the state of play of "social media". I'd say: yesterday's social media superstars turned out to be a little like today's meggings: fashionable mistakes many would rather pretend didn't really happen. You know how I likened yesterday's social media superstars to today's meggings? In a word: life.

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Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned?

Harvard Business Review

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co., While media companies, such as The New York Times Co., Almost 50% of recent technology listings have a dual-class status. stock exchanges.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

Others have even gone as far as to use data from social media sites like Yelp in their predictive formulas. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. tax jurisdiction.

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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

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