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crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 3, 2011
The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect.
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Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
or Charles Hudson at Precursor Ventures the moment I started a new business that I felt had global potential. My goal is simply to point out that some of the most prominent myths Silicon Valley and the startup ecosystem have invented to propel the industry to global heights are just that: myths. Most definitely. Not at all?—?although
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.
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