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

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SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.