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Lessons from the rise of Facebook

As incredible as it seems that Facebook http://www.facebook.com has crossed the threshold of 500 million users in just six years, I find myself even more amazed at how the company reached this remarkable milestone.

This struck me recently as I was reading "The Facebook Effect," the account of the company’s rise by technology reporter David Kirkpatrick. In pulling the various threads of Facebook’s story together, some known and some previously unknown, the book crystallized for me some important lessons from what has become one of the most remarkable business stories ever seen in Silicon Valley.

By Chris O’Brien

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