In other news, rumors buzz around The Fancy after Mark Zuckerberg appears to have created an account. The Facebook IPO frenzy has faded, but the social media site and its founder are still making news. Here are a few of the latest headlines: Facebook's user growth rate in the U.S
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Is he interested in buying the company, or just a gift for Priscilla? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Read More »Is Sheryl Sandberg the Real Brains Behind Facebook?
After the Instagram megadeal and "hoodiegate," Facebook investors may be taking comfort from the COO's leadership. The hit movie The Social Network depicted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a genius among slackers
Read More »Meet the Facebook Mafia
The upcoming Facebook IPO will make this group worth billions. How many Silicon Valley start-ups will they create?
Read More »Greatest Living Entrepreneur: Down to the Final Four
All of the Elite Eight contenders in Inc’s Greatest Living Entrepreneur Tournament are iconic leaders in their fields. But the ones who got the most votes tended to be those with more than one trick up their sleeve
Read More »Fear vs. Greed at Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg and his executive team have been extremely successful at retaining equity in their company.
Read More »Are You Too Old to Start a Company?
Here are five reasons that VCs don't trust anyone over 30 and why all of them are wrong. Sometimes it seems like there's a sign hanging over the doors of some top venture capital firms reading, "No Old People Need Apply." It's not hard to understand why. Investors are looking for the next big thing, and the truth is that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg all were in their late teens or 20s when they launched their companies
Read More »The Facebook IPO Players Club: Dustin Moskovitz
They were doing just fine before, but Facebook's biggest minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (maybe over $4 billion for Dustin Moskovitz!), here's a look at what got them where they are today. Who he is: Dustin Moskovitz was born May 22, 1984--the year the Apple Macintosh landed, if that makes you feel old--and he's just eight days younger than Mark Zuckerberg
Read More »The Facebook IPO Players Club: Eduardo Saverin
They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of minority owners of Facebook are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (billions, for cofounder Eduardo Saverin), here's a look at what got them where they are today.
Read More »The Facebook IPO Players Club: Eduardo Saverin
They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of minority owners of Facebook are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (billions, for cofounder Eduardo Saverin), here's a look at what got them where they are today.
Read More »Be Like Mark: 8 Ways To Emulate Facebook’s Zuckerberg, The Unlikely Leader
Whether you love him , hate him , or are just a little jealous of his newly minted multi-billionaire status, you have to admit that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook , has made some visionary leadership moves. In less than 10 years, Zuckerberg’s taken an idea for an online social network from his Harvard dorm room and delivered it into the homes, offices, pockets, and purses (via mobile phones) of 845 million users around the world. Last year, more than half of Facebook’s users logged in every single day, spending a whopping 4 hours and 35 minutes posting, reading updates, and “liking” more than 2 billion posts a day
Read More »21 Weird Details in Facebook IPO
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Read More »The Year’s Wackiest PR Stunts
Is it really true that all press is good press? Here's a look at 10 of the year's craziest PR stunts. Done well, publicity stunts can generate huge positive buzz for you and your company
Read More »Start-ups Enter the Irrational Exuberance Phase
Congress is beginning to view entrepreneurship by 20-somethings as a low-cost fix for all that ails the economy. A little realism, please?
Read More »Why You Shouldn’t Care About Facebook’s IPO
Don't look to Facebook's financial future to learn much; it's the company's early history that start-up founders should study. In case you hadn't heard the latest rumors—that is, in case you've been off-planet for the last day or two— Facebook plans a $100 billion valuation IPO , probably in the April to June 2012 range. Lots of buzz about this in high tech, but don't pay any attention
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