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Founding a Hardware Start-Up Is Getting Easier

Harvard Business Review

venture-capital investment was for hardware start-ups last year, but that represents a big increase from 1992–2011, when the figure was less than 1% , says the Wall Street Journal. Only 3% of U.S. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. manufacturing jobs. Where did all that money go? based labor.

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