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Startup Success

Startups are known for high failure rates. However, startups can also experience huge success. For example, in Suzanne’s blog post, she wrote about Snapchat’s recent rejection of Facebook’s $3 billion offer to purchase the app. For an app that was only launched in 2011, the success Snapchat has experienced has been tremendous. In fact, according to Suzanne’s post, there may be “a correlation between decline in teen [Facebook] users and an increase in Snapchat users”.

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Twitter Madness!

Earlier today, another public firm, TW Telecom, became another victim of the highly anticipated Twitter IPO (Initial Public Offering). Following the case of investors buying Tweeter shares because of the similarity of its ticker (TWTRQ) to Twitter’s (TWTR), TW Telecom, which trades under the ticker “TWTC”, saw a sudden rise today in the value of its stock from “from $30 to $300 in less than a minute” and forced the NASDAQ to cancel trades.

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