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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market. Companies to watch.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. The concept of The Black Swan was popularized by the great Lebanese thinker and writer Nicholas Taleb in his bestseller of the same name.

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

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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First Name. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Your question to the Journal Community Your comments on articles will show your real name and not a username.