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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

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). Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail.

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

www.theverge.com

There are plenty of things to get pissed off about in finance, but stakeholders lamenting the loss of possible IPO gold because Facebook took it all is not one of them. Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles. You don’t mind signing an NDA, do you? Notice the handwringing, the failure.

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