Startup Professionals Musings

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

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In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

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billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

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Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents.

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5 Challenges When Predicting Future Customer Behavior

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Many market research companies now use this data by ‘scraping’ the web to obtain detailed examples of the sentiment relating to particular issues, brands, products, and services. million books from 1800 to 2000 to let anyone analyze cultural trends. Datafication of relationships and interactions.

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Why You Need To Look Beyond Big Data For Future Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

Many market research companies now use this data by ‘scraping’ the web to obtain detailed examples of the sentiment relating to particular issues, brands, products, and services. million books from 1800 to 2000 to let anyone analyze cultural trends. Datafication of relationships and interactions.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 750 accredited investor members throughout sixteen chapters on three continents.

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Super Angels Are A Boon To Startups Needing Funding

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Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested.