Word: investors
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There was a time when Bezos could say, "If I had a nickel for every time a potential investor told me this wouldn't work..." and then lapse off into head shaking. Now he follows that line with a wild, giggly laugh. No wonder: as of last week, Bezos had 200 billion nickels. A rich reward, to be sure, but how on earth can you compensate a man who can see the future? Perhaps by inaugurating him into that club of men and women selected for having had, "for better or worse," the biggest impact in a given year. Welcome...
...Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, which hadn't yet moved online. Barnesandnoble.com would appear a year later--just before Amazon's initial public offering, which went off at a modest $18 a share. Never mind that the celebrated venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was its biggest institutional investor before the IPO. Wall Streeters were afraid of the threat posed by the giant Barnes & Noble, whose national network of bookstores looked unbeatable, prompting George Colony, president of Forrester Research, a prominent technology-analysis firm, to pronounce the company "Amazon.toast." Other naysayers referred to it as Amazon.org"--".org being...
...recently, the managers of some top venture capital funds have started capping the amount any one investor can sink into them in order to diversify their investor base. So HMC was unable to invest enough of the endowment in venture capital to fully capitalize on the bull market...
...also made it easier for law enforcement officials to catch criminals. Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged Arash Aziz-Golshani and Hootan Melamed, both 23, with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and the two face civil charges from the SEC as well. It was a stunningly simple plan: One Monday morning, investor chat rooms were abuzz with a tip that NEI, a down-and-out commercial printing company, was about to be snapped up by a prosperous suitor. A feeding frenzy ensued, and in a few hours, NEI stock was driven up from 13 cents to more than $15. Meanwhile, back...
...America Online is envied for it, size matters, and today nobody owns more real estate on the Internet than Son. His holding company, Softbank, based in Tokyo, has a stake in more e-businesses in more countries than any other cyberprospector out there. Yahoo? Softbank is the largest single investor, with 23%. PeoplePC, the $24.95-a-month service that gives you a free computer and online access, is a Softbank-affiliated company. So is online grocer Webvan, whose initial public offering three weeks ago soared 66% on Day One. So too is Global Sports, which just launched shopping sites...