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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I noticed an eye-catching headline: "Internet Funding Boom Ends as Fast as It Began". How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? Perhaps I need to rethink that.

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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

As recent as 2016, for example, many business ideas from great minded entrepreneurs came to life, including those related to cancer cure, fast internet connectivity, business news, self-driving trucks, drones for relief operations, and so much more. Professional Social Networking Sites.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others. link] Marco.

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

The students concluded that the context around a venture matters tremendously - that smart phones, the explosion of apps and social networking all were important enablers that allowed foursquare to succeed at this particular moment in time. Monetization. Advertising isn't cool."). Vision/Becoming a platform.

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