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

The Next Web

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market. Companies to watch. 99designs.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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First Name. 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% Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Confirm Email.

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

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September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Domain Name/Basic Site. Why use your real name?

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed. Meanwhile, several others, like Vice Media (which has raised more than $1.3