Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Founder Institute , founded by Adeo Ressi in 2009, claims over 4500 graduates, now up to 1,000 companies annually worldwide, with 90% of these companies still running. Y Combinator , led by Paul Graham, claims success with 3000 companies over 15 years, with a combined value of over $300 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

There are many others, like the one I just finished about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. The first step is to meditate on the examples set by others, like Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, or Thomas Edison with the electric light.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is still extremely rare. Only about a dozen U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

According to the 2009 Tribalization of Business Study by Deloitte Development, one third of all online communities now launched by businesses fail to engage even a hundred participants. A new book by David L.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2011

Hopefully, you will find, with your favorite search engine, something like the “ Cooking And Eating Habits Market Assessment 2009.” Investors will expect market analysis data from a “credible unbiased third party” – that means a nationally known market research firm like Gartner, Forrester, IDC, or many others. Real customer pain and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Is your spotlight bright enough to start a new wave?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Overall, anyone that dives in today to learn more about the intricacies of this space - will become better informed as the growth continues in the future. ########## Evan Britton is a longtime internet veteran who founded Sency in 2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

In a recent study by TowersWatson , an international HR consulting firm, fewer than 21% of employees surveyed described themselves as “highly engaged,” down from 31% in 2009. By David Shedd Is your team fully engaged to give their best, day in and day out? 8% admitted to being fully disengaged.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The number of Facebook users in the US aged 55 and older grew from around 1 million in early 2009 to 10 million in early 2010. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity declined slightly in 2009, but remained substantially higher than the native-born rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2010

I have had many people doubt me, and thought I was crazy last year in a rough economy to leave a job and small side business making 200K a year with a pregnant wife at home and 3-year-old son to take a 125K pay cut and pursue my purpose in November, 2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity declined slightly in 2009, but remained substantially higher than the native-born rate. Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Rates around the world are still going down, while U.S. rates have remained fixed for the last ten years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Despite the third-quarter funding drop, though, funding for the full year still looks to be higher than it was in 2009. billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). So the venture process isn’t dead yet, despite all the rumors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

billion to work across 731 financing deals with US startups, a 50% increase over Q1 2009. I just read the Q1 2010 report from CB Insights , which shows some interesting trends. First of all, investors put $5.9 But disappointingly, dollars invested in early-stage deals fell nearly 21%.

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