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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

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As of January 20, 2016, based on the “CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboard,” there are 157 unicorns (companies with $1 billion+ valuations) which have not IPOed or been acquired—and more start-ups reaching unicorn status every day. MBA Unicorns Weigh Heavily Toward Software, Consumer Internet, and E-Commerce. UCLA Anderson).

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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

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The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google.

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Modi and Ma

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On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. In contrast to China, India has had many fits and starts with economic liberalization and has to date failed to channel its potential due to government policies that have discouraged foreign investment. Enter Modi.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Open Sesame! (A

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

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Loading… Tech. Loading… Asia. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. Management.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

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VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |.