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Investor Perspective: How to Write a Killer Business Plan

The Startup Magazine

In this essay by one of Mercia’s Fund Principals, Ian Wilson, Ian talks about the sorts of things he and the team are looking for when plans come to them for review. There are also regional initiatives such as growth hubs which can signpost entrepreneurs towards those able to offer feedback or assistance.

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The Top 5 Stock Exchanges According to a 2020 Study

The Startup Magazine

For startups and entrepreneurs, awareness of the stock exchanges will help prepare you for a potential public financing of your company through an initial public offering, known as an IPO. The NYSE is also called ‘The Big Board’ as per etoro review. NASDAQ has a collective of $10.8 Trillion overall.

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Technology Review: The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

Campus Entrepreneurship

Does your university or college offer a full fledged entrepreneurship ecosystem. Here is an article from Katherine Dunn in MIT’s Technology Review which explains the ecosystem at MIT and how it has grown more extensive and networked over time. Technology Review: The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco.

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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

crowdSPRING Blog

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. Last month the National Venture Capital Association released a survey which reflected investor’s optimism on high-risk startups, and gave every indication that VCs would continue to invest, particularly in IT, mobile, and cloud-based technologies.

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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

According to current Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity now exceeds 86%, more than 12 percentage points higher than ten years ago at the height of the last recession. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

This is due to systemic regulatory failure and the unintended consequences of ill-conceived regulation that disproportionately negatively impacts startups. warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S. does not exceed 500, which studies show is the level required to support 3% annual U.S. .”