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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

We’ve curated important statistics and separated them into five categories: General facts and statistics. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. At the end of 2017, nearly 1.2 In fact, 6.02

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. This session has Bill Gross, founder of IdeaLab and one of my favorite entrepreneurs and investors. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re

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Curated Collision of Awesome Women

Austin Startup

Still recovering from the 2017 #SCFemFounders Mission! 2017 was a big year of travel for me across Tokyo, Austin Texas, Hong Kong and London. These ramblings are about my week in London with 10 other women as part of the inaugural Startup Catalyst Female Founders London Mission where I was supported to attend by Advance Queensland.

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Why Bleisure Travel Matters

YoungUpstarts

by Anne-Fleur Andrle, co-founder and CEO of Jack and Ferdi. From 2015 to 2017, I flew 80,000 miles. According to the Global Business Travel Alliance , 67% of business travelers value adding leisure time to their business trips. I did too before I started traveling for business. That’s three times around the globe.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

We’ve curated important statistics and separated them into five categories: General facts and statistics. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. At the end of 2017, nearly 1.2 In fact, 6.02

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Its troves of customer data could make it valuable to Walmart, which has been expanding its beauty efforts in 2017. Walmart’s $3.3B Disclosed funding: $27.4M.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.