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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain issues persist despite the fact that the pandemic is now in the rearview — and venture capital funding has looked to dry up almost overnight. Do Not Fear! This is an Opportunity!

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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

A bit belatedly (due to a backlog of blog postings), I wanted to announce ff Venture Capital ‘s summer intern class. Franklin Bi became passionate about venture capital and entrepreneurship after he spent a summer in Silicon Valley, working on an information services startup focused on innovation management.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. government dataset compiled by the U.S. .” “… it is highly unlikely that a company that does not take venture capital ends up going public. … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft,

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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

crowdSPRING Blog

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. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

I was thrilled that what I did employed 50,000 people and did business in every state but Vermont, with international operations in China, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico. The company had been — in my mind anyway — something I did for almost 16 years but not who I was.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

in Brazil and 0.8 Out of these 53m internet users, 15m are shopping online, creating a fast growing $11B ecommerce market in Russia alone (expected to reach $19B by 2015) The mobile penetration is among the highest in the world with 1.7 mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3

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Insuring Directors And Officers Through M&A And IPO Events

YoungUpstarts

Countries like Brazil, for example, are now requiring D&O policies to be purchased locally in order to pay out funds to local executives should a D&O claim arise. His specialties include Public Directors & Officers Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Fiduciary, Crime, K&R, Venture Capital and Private equity programs.

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