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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. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . 1) Generalizable Payments . At least not yet.

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[Singapore] 80% Of Students In Country Interested In Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

According to the results from the latest Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS), 79.8% More Singapore IHL students (42.7%) agreed that IHLs provide a favorable climate for them to become entrepreneurs than the OECD average (29.6%). This is higher than the international average of 3.74

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How to Start a Home Health Care Business

Up and Running

percent in 2000 to 19.6 There are also societal and political factors at play including a growing acceptance among physicians of the practice of home care, as well as pressure to alleviate the demands placed on hospitals and an overall desire to find cost efficiencies in the health care system. percent by 2030.

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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

Techweek brings together a mixture of entrepreneurs, visionaries, and thought leaders for a week-long celebration of all things tech. Join over 2,000 entrepreneurs from around the world as they gather to learn, network and implement new ideas that will make their businesses more successful. Are you up for the challenge? InfusionCon.

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7 Resolutions for the New Year’s Entrepreneur

Growthink Blog

Simply reduce regulation and taxes on small business investment and watch America’s entrepreneurs create all of the jobs America needs and more. #6. IPO volume since 2000. Walk this talk and demand and inspire others to do so too. #4. Think Globally. Support your Local Neighborhood IPO.

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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?

Ben's Blog

Existing venture capitalists with whom we had worked with had important industry relationships, but we found them to be lacking in the following ways: Siloed – As an entrepreneur, you can often count on the General Partner on your board to introduce you to customers or executives, but you can’t count on the venture capital firm itself.