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What Buying Habits Tell Marketers About Each Generation

YoungUpstarts

This type of multi-generational marketing is the practice of appealing to the unique needs and behaviors of individuals within different generational groups. Here are how the buying habits of different generations are influenced by environmental factors and how businesses must focus their marketing efforts accordingly: Millennials. .

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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

The Startup Magazine

Pension funding was above market using aggressive actuarial assumptions. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. municipal bond market. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital. Thus, VCs have the upper hand.

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Do my startup’s lawyers need to be local?

Austin Startup

Even with modern technology that enables casting a wider net for your market reach, most professionals rely significantly on a local client base. If that local base doesn’t exist, they move to where one does, or they change their practice to mirror the local market. I don’t mean to sound cynical about all of this.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. And it was hammered home with Color —a startup without a product —raising $40 million, at a reputed $100 million valuation, from brand name VCs who should have known better.

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Should You Meet With VC’s Early for Feedback?

Rob Go

I think that’s one reason why some companies have limited traction raising money in one market and then can go to another market and have much greater success. It usually focuses on issues around the team, market, or product. But you want to develop a reputation in the community that you are a credible founder.