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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. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. 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. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. 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. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. 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. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors. VCs sit on 5 to 10 or more boards.

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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

crowdSPRING Blog

Three trends which started in 2010 should continue into 2011 and should accelerate as the year goes on: VC funding will continue to accelerate fueled by the global growth in entrepreneurship; job creation will see gains, fueled by startups and small business; initial public offerings will see a comeback.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

or Charles Hudson at Precursor Ventures the moment I started a new business that I felt had global potential. My goal is simply to point out that some of the most prominent myths Silicon Valley and the startup ecosystem have invented to propel the industry to global heights are just that: myths. Most definitely. Not at all?—?although