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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They argue for a €100 billion fund that recruits from both public and private sources and aim for a long-term focus. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments. The report reveals that 22% of startups fail not through a lack of investment but rather through poor marketing.

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How to Reduce 'Infant Entrepreneur Mortality'

Harvard Business Review

Both problems have resulted in a highly unstable, volatile world order that jitters and shocks markets periodically, leaving financial carnage and mass scale human suffering. We need to also teach them to grow by applying the same kinds of methodology and discipline that, traditionally, a venture-funded company may use.

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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

And if America’s media and cultural elite choose scorn over engagement, the whole economy will suffer. By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. Though venture capital funds account for only about 0.2%

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important.

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