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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 Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection.

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Online Gaming, Mobile Entertainment And The Land Of Opportunity In Video Game Design

YoungUpstarts

Technology has done wonders for the world; it has eradicated disease, brought man to the moon (and soon Mars) and increased living standards across the globe. Future games that innovate on these concepts will prove to be highly successful in the world of online and social gaming. by Alanna Hardy. And such business is very profitable.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. 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.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. The revenue, profits and speed of scale of the winning companies can be breathtaking.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

“If LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Chris Yeh’s new book, Blitzscaling, is to be believed, the Uber-style race to the top (or the bottom, depending on your point of view) is the secret to success of today’s technology businesses. This premise has become doctrine in Silicon Valley. But is it correct? I have my doubts.”