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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Advertise Advertise. In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Entertainment. US & World. Watercooler.

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After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

www.theverge.com

Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles. Publishers are using content written with communities such as subreddits in-mind, so they can bundle that traffic up along with their daily visitors in order to fraudulently inflate the value of advertising on their properties. June 19, 2012. June 19, 2012.

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