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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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How Long Should It Take For a Startup to Succeed?

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old. The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year.

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Can You Beat Amazon In The Race To Overnight Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Every Entrepreneur Dreams of an Overnight Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Guess How Long Overnight Success Really Takes

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 In April, 1996, Yahoo!