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Web Startups and Venture Capital (14 Links)
Created by ian 1 year 266 days ago in Technology.
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Links to news and info on startups and venture capital.
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Yahoo turned down $3B to buy Google in 2001
Posted by ashton 303 days ago (www.telegraph.co.uk).  Views: 157
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Related Tags: wall street  microsoft  search  stocks  apple  software  yhoo  baidu  
Shortly after joining Yahoo! as chief executive in 2001, Terry Semel had dinner with Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang had suggested he look at buying their up-and-coming search engine.
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Yahoo’s List of M&A Do-Overs
Posted by ashton 303 days ago (blogs.wsj.com).  Views: 114
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1. GeoCities Yahoo paid almost $3 billion in 1999 for GeoCities, a pioneer of social-networking on the World Wide Web, only to have the social-networking site whither away under its control. As one person close to the situation told Deal Journal’s Dennis [More...]
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Quitting your day job
Posted by ian 1 year 231 days ago (www.promoterforce.com).
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The day this guy quit his day job was the happiest day of his life: "The next morning at 6:30 AM I was up in the attic sipping coffee and working on a long overdue revision of the investor deck and executive summary, when I was hit with a sudden [More...]
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"MySpace will fail.." according to Wikipedia founder
Posted by ian 1 year 260 days ago (www.news24.com).
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"There's way too much advertising and they're not really respecting their own community." Wikipedia is another matter, he says. "We're not similar at all - you get involved in a community."
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The scary math behind Web 2.0
Posted by ian 1 year 260 days ago (news.com.com).
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According to this guys: "Ultimately, this means that, to thrive, a Web 2.0 company needs to get bought by an established player. A site that doesn't do this kind of readership volume or get acquired can still survive, of course, but it may end up [More...]
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Awesome color schemes for web developers
Posted by ian 1 year 260 days ago (kuler.adobe.com).
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I like the first and second ones (sandy stone beach and Garcia Solo)
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Startup Meme
Posted by ian 1 year 261 days ago (startupmeme.com).
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Awesome place to find recent news and blogs related to web startups!
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30 ways to promote your web application with little or no money
Posted by ian 1 year 263 days ago (www.robertoalamos.com).
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I don't really know if any of these are any good ... But anyway, it's a link worth saving.
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Q&A: MySpace Founders Chris DeWolfe And Tom Anderson
Posted by ian 1 year 263 days ago (www.forbes.com).
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It's pretty clear that MySpace became #1 due to their speed in "getting something up" (and then keeping it up when the traffic exploded): Anderson: In a way, it’s our lack of experience that helps--definitely for me. The thing I like about Chris [More...]
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10 Most Successful Web 2.0 Startups To Date
Posted by ian 1 year 265 days ago (www.rev2.org).
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I'm sure you are aware of all these sites, but the info on Approximate Users / Approximate Pageviews / Acquisition / Valuation is interesting.
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Paul Graham: Handling Investors
Posted by ian 1 year 266 days ago (blog.nanobeepers.com).
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Note from Paul Graham's talk on Handling Investors on April 11, 2007 at Stanford.
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Y Combinator Startup News
Posted by ian 1 year 266 days ago (news.ycombinator.com).
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An external "channel" of startup news from Paul Graham's Y Combinator.
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Forget VC Money, Fund Yourself
Posted by ian 1 year 267 days ago (www.inc.com).
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"The best possible way to finance your business is from free cash flow. If you can meet your capital needs without selling equity or without taking on personal debt, do it. It's that simple."
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