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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

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Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. The Washington-based company has raised $6M to date from Vulcan Capital, among others. Series A from Alrai Capital, Bullpen Capital, Invest AG, and Y Combinator.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up. Their twins. Our really, really bad weather.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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When I realized I needed to buy a pair of spinning shoes for a spin class three days later, I went to Google to find articles on the latest and greatest styles, and then to Amazon to read reviews and make my purchase. Taxes and other measures put in place years earlier were even rolled back.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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“The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth. I started treasuring GMV, room-nights and other ‘vanity’ metrics instead of the fundamentals of cash flow and working capital,” he explained. Those were the only metrics we tracked. Product: Bridj.

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