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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” According to Draper, in addition to the above Rule Number One, there are many other questions that need to be answered before a CEO should recommend to the board that it is time for an IPO: Do you really need the money? Which stock would you bet on as the leader?

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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The reason I was brought in, was because one of my board members, Tim Draper, who was a board member at my first company, encouraged me along with some of the other partners at Epic to come and spend a year there. We built that, and sold that to another, NASDAQ company, iManage, which sold to Autonomy, which is now HP.

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