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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.

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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. Monday, January 14 th : Technology Investing – 3-4:30 PM, NYU Wagner at 295 Lafayette Street (Puck Building ). More details.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Here I talked about Lending Club where I understand hedge fund managers are now deploying capital to lend directly against pools of borrowers. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. I believe the natural success to that is Twitter more than any other technology of our generation. Will this Trend Last?

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Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Steve Blank

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) Here it looks for new opportunities within its existing mission (trying new technology on the same platform, using the same technology with new missions, etc.) that’s pretty easy. In Horizon 2, the Navy extends its core mission.

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Irene brings rain, flooding and end of news as we know it [#irene]

This is going to be BIG.

When the industry failed to hold up it’s end of that bargain—instead shoving crappy one-hit wonders down the channel—it was only a matter of time before technology enabled consumers to go around them, and the industry collapsed. Ten years ago, we didn’t have a community online to turn to the way we do know.

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