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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

Take Claus Moseholm, co-founder of GoViral , a Danish company created in 2005 to harness the then-emerging power of the Internet to deliver advertisers’ video content in viral fashion. In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

.” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.