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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. The Index added another $0.9T in value in the past year and the pace of growth is accelerating.

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A week in Australia

David Cohen

I’m writing this on my way back from Australia. Some were running brand new companies, some had already been acquired, and others had scaled up to $100M+ in revenue. We met with some of the gang at AirTree VC and learned quite a bit about some of the challenges and opportunities of investing in Australia from them.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When I moved back to Australia I identified a gap in the market as these clear aligner businesses were not mainstream here. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. They were helping people reclaim their confidence. From 9 pm to 1 am I banged away on a keyboard. Why did you start your business?

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Deep Fake Love & AI Girlfriends

Start Up Blog

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. We now expected that people in a relationships met online.

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” billion in revenue, with a total revenue of $136.3 While studying abroad in Australia, a friend mentioned he had hauled away an old refrigerator for a hundred bucks. But a BHAG shouldn’t focus solely on revenue or growth. In 2018, Walmart had $500.3

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Others, such as Loosecubes, are looking for a more consistent stream of revenue by switching to a subscription-based model. Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs.