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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

The company started the year with no revenue and at it’s peak had a run rate well in excessive of $100 million / year. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. They were new, they were strange, they were ridden mostly by young people?—?they

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. The temptation is to transform the vision of a large market into a solid corporate revenue forecast – before Customer Development even begins.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. originally raised $3 million in financing from some of the smartest people in the industry including Peter Chernin, Allen DeBevoise and Shari Redstone.

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30 Entrepreneurs Describe The Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. We are also planning to expand into a new geographic market, penetrate a new demographic, transfer to a new technology platform and put financing sources in place.

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Today’s Market: A Bubble Waiting to Burst?

Growthink Blog

By almost any objective standard, paying into the billions of dollars for businesses with little revenues and/or significant operating losses - as is the case with all the companies mentioned above - is absurd. Let''s take the bubble question first. And their options for doing so are far more limited than one might think.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data.

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

online.wsj.com

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Mexico/Central America. South America. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based