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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. So what’s left?

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec. Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield at Not Quite Nigella , Nov.

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ProfessorVC: Is it the Horse or Jockey?

Professor VC

Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. The 6-year firm survival rate was 60% for dead founders and 61% for live founders, while the average Operating Return on Assets was 6% for dead founders vs. 8% for live founders, but neither are statistically significant (Hvilde 15). ► 2009. (7).

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.” SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES. This is a major “unlocking.”.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

The feature, titled “ Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward ,” offers an inside look into our office.). According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Here are our core operating principles: - Healthy alternatives should be truly viable alternatives, not luxury products. Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

FDI, M&A’s WEIGHED DOWN BY CRISIS IN 2009, UPTURN EXPECTED IN 2010. billion in 2009, compared with $10.8 63 Israeli companies were acquired or merged in 2009, a 28 percent drop from an average of 87 companies in the previous three years. The top ten deals in 2009 yielded 80 percent ($2.02 billion in 2008 and $8.8

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. In January 2009 they won a Crunchie for best bootstrapped startup. From it’s humble beginnings in 2003 in Seidle’s living room, SparkFun has grown into a favorite supplier for the increasing popular “Maker” community. Photo by earthlightbooks.