Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. So how do Israeli ventures scale up?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Again, the facts show that small growth company IPO’s can grow into global powerhouses– the IPOs of Applied Materials, Adobe , Dell , Intel , Symantec , BMC , Computer Associates , EA , EMC , Fiserv , Intuit , Net App , Oracle , Paychex , Western Digital , Xilinx , and Yahoo! which happen to all be venture?backed

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