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The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems

This is going to be BIG.

Across the world, various economic development organizations, government agencies, and non-profits are putting in admirable and well-intentioned efforts to develop startup ecosystems. Not a oneā€”and through conversations with other seed funds I know, this is pretty widespread.

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10 Reasons Why IPO Is No Longer A Good Startup Exit

Startup Professionals Musings

In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Everybody has known that for awhile, even without perusing a prospectus. So even before you get to product development (20% of revenue) or G&A (14% in 2019), you’re already looking at a narrower potential margin than you might expect from a marketplace or transaction platform.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart Thatā€™s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

During 2010 and 2011, Stuart and Emily spent nine months developing recipes, ā€œusing our lucky neighbors as taste-testers.ā€. People in Eugene loved it,ā€ Red Wagon says in a funding prospectus (more on that in a bit). ā€œIn Red Wagon immediately got on board, prepared a funding prospectus, and launched their $120,000 campaign in January.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

You want this to be passive, so you need to find ways to develop either content or have people use your website without you personally investing the time. I really developed that into a stand-alone business, not the subject of this talk, but that business brought me into the world of blogging. Thatā€™s a really good website.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

Early in a companyā€™s development, objectives can be particularly misleading as nobody really knows the true size of the opportunity. CEOs who excel at board management can ā€œsucceedā€ by setting objectives artificially low. Great CEOs who fail to pay attention to board management can ā€œfailā€ by setting objectives too high.