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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. 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. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

The firm now has 600+ employees with Facebook vice-president Jay Parikh and former Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem on its board as of August 2013. From starting the company on a AUD $10k credit card in 2002 to raising $60m from Atlas Partners in 2010, Sydney-based enterprise software firm counts Twitter and NASA among their clients.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% A version of this article appeared July 11, 2012, on page B1 in the U.S.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. both as an input and as a desired outcome?—?seems

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

online.wsj.com

September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.