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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. In exchange for attending an accelerator, startups give up 5% to 10% of their company’s equity.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

There is no social media or marketing content that you have to create. They are just big markets, and this is why they are so useful. Therefore, the first thing to do is to find the best possible market for your business. Instead of Asia, you may want to target the largest market on the planet, i.e. the United States.

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Meanwhile in Europe. Help is not exactly on the way. The UK chancellor announced a £1.25

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. Promising start-ups exist in the region but the lack of a robust ecosystem for IT companies is a challenge, as is the lack of a link with US market.

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How Gold Investment Saved My Small Business

YoungUpstarts

This inflation will of course benefit Governments which have run-up huge debts fighting Covid-19, as the value of these debts will be inflated away. To take one example, equity markets look ‘priced to perfection’, after a miraculous rebound from significant sell-offs in March and April after the initial economic shock of Covid-19.

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Why governments support venture capital

The Equity Kicker

The Canadian government announcement yesterday of a $400m plan to strengthen the Canadian venture capital industry is the latest in a long series of similar announcements and initiatives from governments around the world that put government cash into VC funds alongside private money to make it more attractive for private investors.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada.