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$300 Million of Twitter, Please

Twitter may not have a vibrant business model but it sure has no problem attracting heavyweight investors. The latest person to step up in a major way is Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, who bought a $300 million stake from an early Twitter investor as part a strategy “to invest in promising, high-growth [...]
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No IPO for Twitter. No S*@%t

Twitter has no plans to do an IPO. Biz Stone told Reuters that Twitter has “so many other things before we even think about that”, and that “We are not even discussing it internally. It’s too far off.” Now I realize that anything Biz Stone says is considered news but, folks, let’s be serious here: [...]
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The Tao of Biz and Ev

One of the more fascinating things about Twitter is how every word spoken by co-founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams is scrutinized, explored and reported/blogged on so enthusiastically. If Stone or Williams speak at a conference, the media/blogger attention is red-hot in its intensity. Stone, for example, spoke yesterday at an event at Oxford University. [...]
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An IPO for Twitter?

Howard Lindzon has decided to stir the proverbial IPO pot by starting a blatant, outrageous, poke-you-in-the-ribs rumor that Twitter is going to do an IPO. His motivation is a desire to see the IPO market jump-started, and he figures Twitter is the perfect candidate given its popularity and high-profile. Even though Twitter has yet to [...]
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