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Venture Capital Survey

• Facebook IPO one year later: Ripple effects still being felt

  It was supposed to be the IPO of the decade. Instead, Facebook’s initial public offering one year ago today was derided as the “Faceplant.” In the months since, it has never approached its underwhelming first-day close of $38.23.

• Latest quarterly numbers paint dismal picture for venture capital

  In the first three months of 2013, nationwide venture funding fell 12 percent compared to the previous quarter. That's a troubling sign, considering that 2012 was the first time since the Great Recession that venture capital investment fell year over year.

• CEO Dick Costolo wants to model Twitter's growth on Amazon's

  If a few auditions had turned the other way, Dick Costolo might have gone on to television stardom like Steve Carell, his fellow cast member of Chicago's influential Second City comedy troupe.