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Read the stories of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, • .Drobox and YouTube What are the impact of these successful business - ?in the US economy

Read the stories of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, • .Drobox and YouTube What are the impact of these successful business - ?in the US economy

Principles of Economics 2e
Principles of Economics 2e
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Author:Steven A. Greenlaw; David Shapiro
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Read the stories of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, • .Drobox and YouTube What are the impact of these successful business - ?in the US economy
DZEV © 150 Done Case Study of Web 2.0_ac2b4fa1... 1 من 1 O Case insight Web 2.0 US high-growth web start-ups It now claims to have approximately 300 million users, and revenues in 2013 were approximately $1.5 billion. Some of the fastest and highest-growth start-ups over the last decade have been based on the development of interactive websites, where users can generate their own content and interact with each other and form a virtual Twitter This is a social networking and microblogging site that enables users to send and receive text message 'tweets'. y- called Web 2.0. This is in contrast to web- sites that limit the user to viewing the content. Examples Based in San Francisco, it was launched by Jack Dorsay and of Web 20 include social networking sites, wikis, blogs, others in 2006. By 2013 it had over 500 million registered high-growth startups face o ces, mash-ups etc. Fast. of the uncertainties surrounding their market acceptance $664 million, although after seven years the cornpany has and their accelerated development, they need to plan still not made a profit. So, for everybody using the site video hosting sites, hosted users (some 213 million active) who post some 340 million tweets a day, and it generated revenues.of.approximately particular problems. Because growth, particularly because they often need to raise considerable finance at inception. The lean start-up tech- niques outlined in Chapter 6 can help mitigate the risks and venture funding and was floated on the stock market in they face. Nevertheless, there are many examples of highly 2013, seeking to attract $1 billion-a company valuation of successful Web 2.0 start-ups that have made their founders $12-20 billion. millionaires. for Twitter generates annual sales about one cent for each character in a Tweet It has attracted considerable private Dropbox Facebook This is a file hosting service founded by Drew Houston and a friend in 2007 and launched in 2008. It is based in San This is arguably the best known Web 2.0 start-up. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg with same friends while at Harvard Francisco. It allows files to be stored 'in the cloud'- free in 2004, it is an online social networking site based in up to a certain size and for a fee beyond that size. By 2014 Menlo Park, California. Its famously oversubscribed initial public offecing in 2012 raised $16 billion, although share value subsequently slumped. It now has over 757 million active users every day, and revenues in 2014 were over $124 billion. it claimed to have over 300 million users, and revenues in 2013 were approximately $200 million. YouTube 12,400,000,00) Linkedin 4,167,800p00 This is the well-known, widely used video-sharing website based in San Bruno, California. It was launched in 2005 by Steve Chan, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. The venture- funded start-up was purchased by Google only 22 months later, in 2006, for $1.65 billion. This is another social networking site, but it is used for professional networking. Now headquartered in Mountain View, California and Dublin, Ireland, it was founded by Reid Hoffman and a group of coileagues in 2002 and QUESTION: launched in 2003. Its initial public offering in 2011 was also oversubscribed, but shares subsequently doubled in value. 1 How easy is it to predict markets, sectors or industries that will enjoy this sort of growth?
Transcribed Image Text:DZEV © 150 Done Case Study of Web 2.0_ac2b4fa1... 1 من 1 O Case insight Web 2.0 US high-growth web start-ups It now claims to have approximately 300 million users, and revenues in 2013 were approximately $1.5 billion. Some of the fastest and highest-growth start-ups over the last decade have been based on the development of interactive websites, where users can generate their own content and interact with each other and form a virtual Twitter This is a social networking and microblogging site that enables users to send and receive text message 'tweets'. y- called Web 2.0. This is in contrast to web- sites that limit the user to viewing the content. Examples Based in San Francisco, it was launched by Jack Dorsay and of Web 20 include social networking sites, wikis, blogs, others in 2006. By 2013 it had over 500 million registered high-growth startups face o ces, mash-ups etc. Fast. of the uncertainties surrounding their market acceptance $664 million, although after seven years the cornpany has and their accelerated development, they need to plan still not made a profit. So, for everybody using the site video hosting sites, hosted users (some 213 million active) who post some 340 million tweets a day, and it generated revenues.of.approximately particular problems. Because growth, particularly because they often need to raise considerable finance at inception. The lean start-up tech- niques outlined in Chapter 6 can help mitigate the risks and venture funding and was floated on the stock market in they face. Nevertheless, there are many examples of highly 2013, seeking to attract $1 billion-a company valuation of successful Web 2.0 start-ups that have made their founders $12-20 billion. millionaires. for Twitter generates annual sales about one cent for each character in a Tweet It has attracted considerable private Dropbox Facebook This is a file hosting service founded by Drew Houston and a friend in 2007 and launched in 2008. It is based in San This is arguably the best known Web 2.0 start-up. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg with same friends while at Harvard Francisco. It allows files to be stored 'in the cloud'- free in 2004, it is an online social networking site based in up to a certain size and for a fee beyond that size. By 2014 Menlo Park, California. Its famously oversubscribed initial public offecing in 2012 raised $16 billion, although share value subsequently slumped. It now has over 757 million active users every day, and revenues in 2014 were over $124 billion. it claimed to have over 300 million users, and revenues in 2013 were approximately $200 million. YouTube 12,400,000,00) Linkedin 4,167,800p00 This is the well-known, widely used video-sharing website based in San Bruno, California. It was launched in 2005 by Steve Chan, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. The venture- funded start-up was purchased by Google only 22 months later, in 2006, for $1.65 billion. This is another social networking site, but it is used for professional networking. Now headquartered in Mountain View, California and Dublin, Ireland, it was founded by Reid Hoffman and a group of coileagues in 2002 and QUESTION: launched in 2003. Its initial public offering in 2011 was also oversubscribed, but shares subsequently doubled in value. 1 How easy is it to predict markets, sectors or industries that will enjoy this sort of growth?
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