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Catch Up on the last 7 days of ARTE Téléchat 05:06 Today, 5:00 am Mikmac, le micro de Groucha, ne se prive pas d'intervenir. Watch (1 vote) Le club des hommes sirènes 58:02 Today, 12:30 am Des Suédois traversant la crise de la quarantaine montent un groupe de natation synchronisée.VC outperforms stock market - study
A study by HEC School of Management and Golding Capital Partners has found that private equity beats the stock market over the long term by 7%. The study covered more than 4,000 realized transactions in Europe and the USA between 1977 and 2009, and found that that 7.1 percent outperformance of the stock market increased to 15.5 percent during recessions. Golding Capital Partners is a German fund-of-funds manager. HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) is considered to be one Europe’s best business schools. Munich, 5th October, 2010 – Private equity earns an excess return of 7.1% over the stock market in the long term.
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Meet the Newest (and Cutest) Mozillians :: The Mozilla Blog
On June 14, 2010, two female firefox (a.k.a red panda) cubs were born at the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee, and as of today, they’ve officially joined the Mozilla community.
VALUE NEGOTIATION: HOW TO FINALLY GET THE WIN-WIN RIGHT examines the complicated world of negotiation and provides a simple and practical approach in helping negotiators learn how to consistently deliver the most possible value at the lowest possible risk in the widest range of situations. The textbook consists of three parts: In Become a Negotiator, challenge yourself to rethink your foundations and assumptions about negotiation. In Prepare for Negotiation, find out how to choose a negotiation goal and strategy, and anticipate critical moments during negotiation.
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At 5pm today the unruly message board 4chan plans to take down the blogging platform Tumblr. 4chan has successfully cowed everyone from Gene Simmons to the Tea Party , but they may have finally met their match. Tumblr users are freaking out about today's attack, the culmination of a campaign, "Operation Overlord," launched by 4chan to pay back Tumblr for encroaching on their turf. That turf being making dumb jokes and harassing strangers on the Internet. If you see 13-year-old girls running from their homes weeping at 5pm today, Operation Overlord is why. We're all familiar with the anonymous hivemind that festers on 4chan's /b/ message board, occasionally lashing out at women who throw cats in trash cans.
4chan Wages War on Tumblr: Whoever Wins, We All Lose
How To Calculate A Return On Investment
The Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restaurants, music, local real estate, local businesses. In these investments we are usually backing an entrepreneur we've gotten to know who delivers products to the market that we use and love. The Gotham Gal runs this part of our investment portfolio with some involvement by me. As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the investor's return.
Why Twitter Is Massively Undervalued Compared To Facebook
Editor’s note: In this guest post, Naval Ravikant and Adam Rifkin argue why Twitter is undervalued. Naval was an early investor in Twitter and owns Twitter shares; Adam does not. They have not discussed the content of this article with anyone inside Twitter. The views expressed are their own. They can be found on Twitter @naval and @ifindkarma. Twitter was valued at one billion dollars in its last round of financing, but we believe it may in fact be severely undervalued relative to Facebook because Twitter’s value proposition is less obvious.Chicago-based Groupon is certainly one heck of a startup. Like Zynga it sort of came out of nowhere in 2009. Even last December I was sort of only vaguely aware of how fast it was growing. But it was clear by early 2010 to the whole world that Groupon was on a tear.
Why Groupon Is No Ebay
An update to this column : According to the Wall Street Journal, any of Facebook’s most popular applications have been transmitting identifying information — in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names — to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. See here (paywall). This year, Facebook will make about $1.5bn in advertising revenue.
The Facebook Money Machine
Inventor Of Twitter Might Own Less Than 5%-15% Of The Company
Twitter's creator Jack Dorsey may own just a tiny piece of the company, according to an account on Quora from the first employee of Odeo, the company that led to Twitter . Odeo was a failed startup that was working on syndicating podcasts. At Odeo, Jack Dorsey came up with the idea for Twitter . Twitter seemed more promising than Odeo, so Odeo was shut down, and all focus went to Twitter. When Odeo was shut down, Ev Williams bought out all Odeo investors. (The company had raised a series A.)Employee Equity: Options
A stock option is a security which gives the holder the right to purchase stock (usually common stock) at a set price (called the strike price) for a fixed period of time. Stock options are the most common form of employee equity and are used as part of employee compensation packages in most technology startups. If you are a founder, you are most likely going to use stock options to attract and retain your employees. If you are joining a startup, you are most likely going to receive stock options as part of your compensation. This post is an attempt to explain how options work and make them a bit easier to understand. Stock has a value.How and when to give a media 'exclusive' - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog
Last week I participated in a panel discussion about how startups should handle social media, sponsored by the New England Venture Network (NEVN). Lots of good back-and-forth, including a fairly contentious discussion of whether or not companies should give "exclusives" to certain media outlets. Leading the anti-exclusive charge was social media guru Paul Gillin, who summarized his argument in a subsequent blog post : "Exclusives make one friend at the expense of making a lot of enemies. I can't believe they are a good thing for your business in the long term."2010 Global Cleantech 100 List Dominated By American And Energy Efficiency Businesses
The Cleantech Group LLC in conjunction with the UK’s Guardian News and Media , released their second annual Global Cleantech 100 list on Wednesday. The rankings recognize private, for-profit, independent cleantech companies that are most likely to make a significant, global market impact over the next five to ten years. The top ranked, North American cleantech business on the list was Amyris Biotechnologies, which makes chemicals and biofuels from renewable sources. Amyris was initially backed by Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers , Khosla Ventures and TPG Biotech . The company went public in late September; its stock is now trading on NASDAQ under the symbol AMRS for around $18.00 . This year, 3,138 qualifying companies were nominated for the Cleantech Group’s list.Five Greentech Startups Thinking Outside The Box
The busy green tech industry is teeming with companies focused on alternative energy. Some of the biggest new sources of energy they are trying to tap into include solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass and fuel cells. Most companies harnessing each power source are pursuing somewhat similar technologies – such as photovoltaic cells in solar, turbines in wind and hydroelectric – and then innovate from there. There are also many companies, however, that also focus on green technology and alternative energy but in different ways. Here are five you may not have heard of that are worth keeping an eye on. They are developing new ways to capture and store energy, light up our world, and power our vehicles.Skype sale
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