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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and team members) are getting rich.

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10 Signs That The Age Of The Entrepreneur Is Here Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Two of these, Uber and Didi Chuxing, have already passed $50 billion.

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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. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. With 150,000 users and counting, they might just be on to something.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. Those were friends and families.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Journal Community. Journal Community.