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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

Recent months have seen impressive auto sales figures, and that momentum is expected to continue for some time. Although concerns over gas prices might put a damper on car purchases, experts believe that an improvement in unemployment will help make up the difference and keep auto sales strong. economic recovery. India-based firms.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. It was early 2000.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

An IBM study in 2011, “ From Social Media to Social CRM ”, discovered significant gaps between what businesses think consumers care about and what consumers say they want from their social media interactions with companies. What was still missing was a simple way to identify a customer at the point of sale.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive. When Murthy had left in 2011 from his chairman position, Infosys stood head and shoulders above the rest as the bellwether Indian IT firm (it had since then been nudged out from that mantle by Tata Consultancy Services). Enter outsourcing.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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How Helping Newbies Led To Big Profits And A Closing Down Sale (Discount Price Ends Friday)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

If you get your offer wrong, you won’t make sales. Obviously I was pretty stoked at how successful the course was, and it went on from there to grow to over 2000 members and become the most successful program I’ve ever created based on total number of users.

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