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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. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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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. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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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. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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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. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

Those were CEOs of public companies and founders or executives of some of the fastest-growing and most successful tech companies in Austin and tech. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. Those were friends and families. They were, and remain, my team.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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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.