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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurs Hall, innovation is a way of life. Harvard Innovation Lab.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The Golden Age for Entrepreneurs and VC’s. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public.

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Super Angels Are A Boon To Startups Needing Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research. Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested.

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The “Pre” Startup is adding air to the bubble

Scalable Startup

There seems to be a lot of this going around these days – the “I’m just about to start a startup” category of entrepreneurs, or “I just started a startup” when they haven’t. the barriers are now very low for actually forming a business, as is the cost. micro funding ($25K). millionaires.

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The end or the beginning? Thoughts on the current startup environment

This is going to be BIG.

Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. There is an enormous amount of angel capital available, while at the same time there is a small amount of Series A and a large and concentrated amount of late stage capital. Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again?

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How to Start a Home Health Care Business

Up and Running

percent in 2000 to 19.6 At present, there are more than 386,000 home health care businesses in the U.S., With a low barrier to entry and a growing demand, it is an appealing business for eager entrepreneurs. The most traditional routes are bank loans, small business loans, or angel investors.