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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Check your ego firmly at the door when evaluating business models.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. To blitzscale successfully, you need a successful business model.

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The Future is Better than You Think

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? So from a business perspective, how can we make the Black Swan work for, and not against, us?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymanns new start-up, Mowingo Inc., Of the 6,613 U.S.-based