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How to Avoid Being Part of 90% of Failed Companies

ReadWriteStart

As an entrepreneur, you have probably heard or read the “maxim” that only 10% of startups are successful, but is this true? The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. Fortune published an article titled , Conventional Wisdom Says, 90% of Startups Fail. Data Says Otherwise.

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Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future

Rob Go

Here’s my take on the state of things as they stand at the end of 2012. THE DEDICATED SEED STRATEGY CONTINUES TO HAVE STRONG BENEFITS. I call “dedicated seed funds” ones that at their core, make seed investments. These are not funds that “do seeds but pile in on the winners”. As a result, fund sizes must increase.