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Yahoo also thought it was doing well when most of its profit was coming from unprofitable startups funded by VCs. Guess what happened when VCs stopped investing in startups in 2000?


I will never forget hearing a software consulting shop had been around for 20 years until they picked too many customers who went under simultaneously.




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