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Online Gaming, Mobile Entertainment And The Land Of Opportunity In Video Game Design

YoungUpstarts

Online Gaming, Mobile Entertainment and the Video Game Design Boon. Meanwhile, mobile gaming on smart devices – an industry worth $33 billion – is a field swelling with potential for designers. Mobile Gaming. What makes mobile games so appealing is that they don’t require an outlet, a controller, or a rulebook.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

Having raised a $35m Series A round from Accel Partners and angel investors behind ebay, Flickr and Squarespace to expand their global presence (which now include offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and Rio), 99designs remain the darlings of the Aussie startup scene and one to watch.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. Certainly. Most definitely. Not at all?—?although

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 Global Support. Contact Us.

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

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