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Twitter IPO dampens investors’ projections


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It’s March 21, 2006. After another long day of debugging and hashing out code at the startup, co-founder of Twitter — twttr at the time — Jack Dorsey sends out the first-ever tweet. What Dorsey published was nothing out of the ordinary. The small team at twttr didn’t know what to think of the idea […]

Startups can benefit from some guidance


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In the second grade, I entered an invention contest. I had a great idea in mind and wanted to introduce it to the rest of my class. That invention? The Sharpencil, a brilliant product that would always keep your pencils sharp. Take off the rose-colored glasses, however, and the Sharpencil is actually a No. 2 […]