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Midsized Firms Can’t Afford Bad Bets

Harvard Business Review

BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. Poring through the IPO documentation of several larger competitors that had introduced similar devices, they produced a set of financial data that showed the growth and profitability of competing products.

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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. Serious government skin in the game.