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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. Ok, Suster. So WTF happened?

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. In 2018, Live Current Media bought it for $5 million. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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6 Reasons Smart Entrepreneurs Think Twice Before IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

Even perceived weaknesses can dramatically impact company valuations. Private companies typically have an internal board of friendly owners, unlikely to be pressured by the media to consider an unfriendly tender offer from another major player in the market. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/24/2015.

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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

Mobile Q4: The scramble for spectrum continues Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust. Previous What’s wrong with the tech valuations? Tech News and Analysis. gigabarb : Microsoft’s Ballmer to Apple: It’s on (again) [link]. Follow us on Twitter. -->.

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Seduced By Growth, But Terminal Scale Still Matters

Agile VC

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? What happened?

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Is VC Funding the Real Unicorn in Silicon Valley?

Up and Running

It’s understandable, then, that the term “unicorn” has come to be used routinely in the world of business funding to refer to those rare and beautiful privately funded startups—especially in the tech space—that have reached the upper echelon of valuation, being valued at over $1 billion. at around 27 million. Bruce is the U.S.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). 2021 Tech Trends: Israel is winning the global race for tech funding. Part of a global trend. Records were broken globally as well, both in terms of funding and number of unicorns. To put things in context: startup fundraising 2021 Global: $643 billion ??US: