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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. It’s not too late to start.

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Look out for more products that aggregate and organize existing accounts and automatically scrub your inboxes, feeds and social media connections. Niche-Based Social Networks. Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. Christopher Kelly , NYC Conference Centers. Crowdfunding Gone Crazy. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. CB Insights regularly produces data-driven reports and analysis on venture capital, private equity, angel investment, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs and emerging high-growth industries. 1) Industry reports. 6) CB Insights. 7) Mattermark.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Social, Facebook, and Twitter referral is meaningful. 5:00 – 5:55). They had a great team and interesting technologies.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Social Media. These days, having a social media presence is essentially a requirement for the vast majority of businesses. You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. Retail Distribution.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns. Perfect.