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emmett on Nov 20, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 20 Worst Venture Capital Investments of All Ti...

Facebook has 50 million active users, is the 7th largest website online according to Alexa, and is growing rapidly.

Many of these startups failed to even launch, and the ones that did never got traction or had completely unsustainable business models.

marvin on Nov 21, 2007 [–]

And besides, the Facebook deal was "only" 200 million dollars. If Facebook tanks tomorrow, that is a small loss for a large business event. As others have pointed out, the numbers today are small by 1999-standards.

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