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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

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Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. What’s more, startups founded by women are 20 percent more likely to be revenue-generating and bring 35 percent higher returns to investors than all startups combined. Editors Note.

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A Brief History of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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The FTC and Chamber of Commerce were the greatest supporters of the Revenue Act of 1938. They began this practice fairly recently, in 1997. Between 2019 and 2020, the US Chamber of Commerce began an 18-month restoration project. The Federal Trade Commission is, in essence, an organization that advocates for American consumers.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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Warren Buffet, 1997. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019. He then argues Squarespace, as a result of choosing a Direct Listing, ended up with a valuation multiple of 6.7X, which he says compares unfavorably to its public peer $WIX (which has an 8X forward revenue multiple).

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