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

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SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

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Tech ventures, some of whom were presenters at the earlier Demo Day, joined ventures in green energy and the life sciences. This is the 13th year the conference has been in business, which alternates each year between Kansas City and St. Both events drew small and large investors from all over the country.

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8 Challenges To Overcome In The Growth Of Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

In this age of instant communication via the Internet, It’s ironic that I can now find out what’s going on around the world often more easily than in my own neighborhood. Hyperlocal in New York City is different from hyperlocal in Kansas. You need to find common elements to scale the business.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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How to Find a Mentor

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See Also When Ice.com—a Top 500 Internet Retailer—Uses Mentors, You Should Too. I applied, pitched, and was accepted into BetaBlox —a Kansas City-based startup incubator—in June of 2014,” says Shane Park, CEO of Coinplay. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. Where to start your search: Look to your own network first.