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Refugees Need Jobs. Entrepreneurship Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

Kauffman research has shown that in some years (1985-2005), young firms have been responsible for as much as two-thirds of new American jobs. According to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, America’s leading entrepreneurship think tank, young companies (including startups)—not old ones–are what matters for job creation.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Where accelerators fall short is in leading investment rounds deep into the company's lifecycle, the purview of traditional venture funds.

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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital. 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. The advice VCs give isn’t always that good.

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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. The Economist dubbed Block 71, “the world’s most tightly packed entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 based corporations – prominent examples being Skype, founded in Estonia, acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion) of that of the United States ($ 37.9 billion in 2014.

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