Two friends started a website in their dorm room that IPO’d. Then came the dotcom bust. Here are the lessons the founder took to his next venture. Before Mark Zuckerberg created The Facebook, and even before Tom Anderson of MySpace was a household name, there was Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot. In 1994, the two Cornell University students founded Theglobe.com–a sort of proto-Facebook that let users publish their own content and find friends with similar interests–out of their Ithaca dorm room. Less than four years later, The Globe issued an IPO and saw their share price jump from an initial $9 to a high of $97 before the trading day was over.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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Campaigners hoping to save Kensal Rise Library from being turned into flats are staging a protest... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012, the Italian Publishers Association presented statistics about Italy's book market. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Kensal Rise Library will be sold for flats, after its owner, All Souls College, Oxford, decided... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ad revenue at The New York Times Co. declined 8.9% in the third quarter from the quarter a year earlier as print ad revenue dropped 10.9% and digital ad revenue slipped 2.2%, the company said today. Circulation revenue, however, increased 7.4% on the strength of growing digital subscriptions and... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Despite a dip in overall book sales down under, Australian agents and rights managers report a booming business from the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Fifty Shades of Grey has sold more than 28 million physical copies around the world, though... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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WH Smith chief executive Kate Swann is to leave the company in 2013, after leading it to a group... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publishers are readying themselves to respond to an explosion of e-reading devices in the UK in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Profile has announced a sales hike of 23% for the year to end March 2012, with an operating... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The battle to keep online advertising yields and returns high in a market of infinite volume and little scarcity rages on. But some publishers are deciding that it's not their fellow broadcasters, magazines and newspaper who are the problem but t ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Over the past decade sales patterns have changed, with fall, or “holiday,” sales picking up later and later—often in the last two weeks of the season. But things could be different this year. With the closing of Borders, many stores saw a significant uptick last November, and for some, like San... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Former Waterstones m.d. Tim Coates plans to help campaigners re-open Kensal Rise Library by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Former Waterstones m.d. Tim Coates plans to help campaigners re-open Kensal Rise Library by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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YA promises diversity with historical fiction, paranormal romance, murder mysteries and thrillers.YA promises diversity with historical fiction, paranormal romance, murder mysteries and thrillers. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Campaigners trying to create a community library in Kensal Rise have raised nearly half the money... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Campaigners trying to create a community library in Kensal Rise are seeking £70,000 of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Although quarterly revenue dropped 2.1 percent, the newspaper publisher earned 56 cents a share, beating a forecast of 52 cents. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Japan is set to fully enter the ebook age with four high-profile device launches in the next few... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Cambridge University Press has seen its digital revenues rise 70% over the past year to account... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The top 10 publishers in the world had their lowest combined market share last year in the Livres... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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