Posted on: May 18, 2012 by Lawrence J. Aragon
In honor of Facebook’s IPO, peHUB has compiled a lengthy list of links to all things Facebook and broken them into about a dozen categories to make them easy to scan.
Tags: Accel Partners, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg
Posted on: May 17, 2012 by reuters-news
Frenzied demand is expected to drive the price of Facebook shares well above their IPO price of $38 a share, which was already at the top end of the company’s target of $34 to $38 per share.
Tags: Accel Partners, DST Global, Dun & Bradstreet, Facebook, Greencrest Capital, Mark Zuckerberg, Morningstar, RCM Capital Management
Posted on: May 14, 2012 by Victor Belfor
I recently invested in two companies whose founders either had little interest in school as students or who dropped out of grad school: MixRank and Influitive. Both management teams are driven, hard working and well prepared for the difficult road of creating a business from scratch.
Tags: Ben T. Smith IV, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Victor Belfor
Posted on: May 7, 2012 by Lawrence J. Aragon
Will Facebook will knock Baidu from the No. 1 spot on the list of IPOs with the biggest first-day gains? Take our poll and let us know what you think.
Tags: Baidu, CafePress, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Yelp
Posted on: March 12, 2012 by reuters-news
He once trashed the concept of college. But, now, Peter Thiel is heading to Stanford to teach a course. Should students buckle down on homework, or hope to be plucked from their university early, like star athletes?
Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, PayPal, Peter Thiel, Zynga
Posted on: February 3, 2012 by Connie Loizos
Here are some must-have items for every hard-working young billionaire.
Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Uncrated
Posted on: February 1, 2012 by Mark Boslet
Facebook filed for a $5 billion IPO on Wednesday as the social networking site with $3.7 billion in 2011 revenue opened up the details of its business to public scrutiny for the first time. The company’s top shareholder is CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who co-founded the company in a Harvard dorm room and holds 28.4% of [...]
Tags: Accel Partners, Facebook, ipo, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel
Posted on: December 8, 2011 by Luisa Beltran
There’s been a lot of press about whether Facebook does enough to protect user privacy.
In late 2009, Facebook changed its privacy settings that made some parts of user profiles public. Users “became enraged” about the changes and complained that they weren’t given notice and that hiding their info became harder, according to the Washington Post.
Last week, the FTC announced a settlement with Facebook, which has roughly 800 million users. Facebook has agreed to get consumer approval before it changes the way
Tags: Facebook, FTC, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
Posted on: December 2, 2011 by Lawrence J. Aragon
Tags: Castle Harlan, IRRs, Larry Cheng, Maine, Mark Zuckerberg, Parish Capital, stepstone, Steve Jobs, VC-backed IPOs, Vinod Khosla
Posted on: November 29, 2011 by Connie Loizos
Black Friday, Cyber Monday: the U.S. has once again kicked its consumption into high gear. But if Silicon Valley’s elite spends lavishly on clothing, you can bet it bet it will be understated. It’s the Silicon Valley way. And why? Because fashion takes time and effort, people, and no one wants to be accused of [...]
Tags: Mark Pincus, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Tony Conrad, Vinod Khosla