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Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by aswanson on Saturday May 21, 2016 @03:28PM (#11745833)
Yup, same as it ever was. I remember back in 2001 saying to myself, "Good, all the bullshit is flushed out. Anything that survives this is real and should be invested in." Too bad I didnt put a few thousand into YHOO and AMZN back then: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=AMZN&a=04&b=16&c=1997&d=04&e...
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Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by paulpauper on Saturday May 21, 2016 @03:34PM (#11745856)
AMZN and GOOG would have been great investments and still are
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Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by SilasX on Saturday May 21, 2016 @04:15PM (#11746007)
Google IPO wasn't till '04 though.
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Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by paulpauper on Saturday May 21, 2016 @03:55PM (#11745923)
I know but it was founded in 1998 and survived.
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Re:Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It by lazaroclapp on Saturday May 21, 2016 @06:36PM (#11746497)
Sure, but what he means is most normal people wouldn't have been able to invest in GOOG then.
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