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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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Can you be an adaptive business leader?

Berkonomics

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. More importantly it is one requiring that you spend some amount of your time looking for signs of change.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

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” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. million a year.

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Be an Adaptive Business Leader.

Berkonomics

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. More importantly it is one requiring that you spend some amount of your time looking for signs of change.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Management. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Manage Email Preferences. Manage Email Preferences.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. Facebook went public in May with two classes of stock that give founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg about 57% of the voting power even though he only owns about 28% of the shares.