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

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He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. North Dakota. South Carolina. South Dakota. North Dakota. South Carolina. South Dakota. "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

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And then of course investment in special innovation zones — where regulatory experiments can happen alongside innovation, as with Nevada for autonomous vehicles and South Dakota for crypto — can especially help create opportunity for places where there isn’t already a strong innovation ecosystem. annual GDP growth — may end in failure.