You're right that they're 2 very different investments, but I don't think you can say unequivocally that #1 is better than #2. It all depends on desired returns, risk, etc. Let's face it, if you had given money to Apple in 1976 there was a good chance you were never seeing that money again.
The simple answer is if you IPO at a certain price and declare you don't plan on growing at all, then nobody will participate in your offering or buy your shares in the open market. It's just a fact of life that as a public company you need to prove to your shareholders that next year your shares will be worth more than right now. Otherwise outside investors have no reason to invest in your company rather than keeping their money in a savings account (or a low risk alternative). The same basic premise applies to VC investments.
That's not to say that a patio11-style business is wrong, just that it's very different. It's personal preference if you've started the business and there's no right or wrong way.
Even worse, once you've convinced investors that you're an essential component of the internet and you get a monster valuation, the only solutions worth looking at are ones that will fulfill a destiny that recedes with every passing day. Who is going to be the CEO who says "fuggeddaboudit, we ain't never gonna be Facebook. Learn to live with Twitter as the unfiltered (and therefore troll-infested) breaking news utility and whatever valuation that brings us."
If by "well-defined rules" you mean normal "Copyright Law", then yes. But it extends no protections or permissions beyond what copyright law already gives you.
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Our core product is what we call our ‘Behavioral CMS’. We analyze digital body language to make websites way more convenient and less annoying to visitors (which dramatically increases their conversion rate). Our clients include large retailers, publishers and Fortune 500s to help them monetize their traffic more effectively.
We have a world-class, developer friendly culture. In 2015 we were ranked #1 for retention and career development by Computer World. This year we’ve been ranked #7 on the INC 500 list of fastest growing companies (#1 in technology). Our office is in the NY Times building - easily accessible from many locations and floor to ceiling windows with a 360 degree view of the city.
The platform team is looking for engineers with deep knowledge of writing secure, system level software. We collect and process billions of events per day using Golang, Kinesis, DynamoDB, BigQuery and Docker.
The product team is looking for an expert in PHP and MySQL to create and expand our API's for both internally and externally facing web applications. Full stack experience is a plus here because this person will be building features that respond to our end users (vanilla JS) as well as our internal app (Ember.js).
Irrelevant. On a personal level, he didn't get to his current net worth by not seeking out lucrative deals. It's also irrelevant from the legal perspective (see Martha Stewart).
Martha Stewart went to jail for lying about something. Also, don't confuse strict liability torts with those that require negligence or intent to harm. But certainly if a strict liability statute _is_ violated, you're right that it doesn't matter if it was "just a little bit".
Cheap to extremely cheap. Newark has been plagued with low employment and violence for a long time, although it is currently going through a bit of an uptick thanks mostly to investments in the downtown area and general positive attention due to Corey Booker.
The issue with Newark is good access to clean water and air pollution. Newark (especially the Passaic River that cuts through the city) has a long history of terrible pollution, and the shipyards and airport contribute to some generally poor air quality.
Couldn't an indoors farm use a closed air system? Actually, no - it would probably consume CO2 and produce O2, so there would need to be some exchange with the external world, but it would probably be beneficial to do it in a controlled manner, to avoid loosing water and getting pollution in.
While looking at the cap structure might lead to this conclusion, I would bet the farm on the fact that she's gotten some cash out of all of these rounds, or simply through bonuses. Being the CEO of a high profile company (at least in fundraising circles) she can easily make the argument for it.
