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6 Trends Startups Must Cope With In 2013 – From Paul Kedrosky

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It took a few years – and a few thousand failed consumer internet startups – but investors have gone back to the basics and now demand that companies they fund have income, not just a lot of Web users or app downloads. Kedrosky thinks it will be eased by the return to the venture market of big investors like pension funds.

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2013: The Year of Grit

Seeing Both Sides

And the so-called BRIC countries are forecasting tepid growth (we could rename them "ICK" if we added in Borat's home of Kazakhstan and dropped Brazil and Russia.). When I first learned how to value options in the stock market, a light bulb went off. Meanwhile, in our little world of StartUp Land, things don't seem much brighter.