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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000. Startups going public are laid open to competitors and critics.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. ” I don’t doubt that he means it. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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Sundae snags $36M to build out its distressed property marketplace

TechCrunch LA

Opendoor has opened the door, so to speak, for startups to apply their technical expertise in search, marketplaces and audience segmentation to rethink the very antiquated and analogue world of property. All are previous investors from the startup’s last round, a $16.55 million Series A also led by QED.

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

Xconomy

To augment and overcome physical distance, we are starting to use drones, virtual reality, and driverless cars. Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 The Continued Growth of Cloud.

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If Your Passion Is Saving The Environment, Start Here

Startup Professionals Musings

Al Gore, by just talking about it, still seems to be leading the way in monetization, having amassed an estimated net worth reported recently as around $300 million. Thus I offer some practical strategies if you are looking for direction or the best place to start: Look for opportunities to increase recycling and reuse.

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Carrier Network Infrastructure: How to Find Local Vendors to Expand Your Capacity

Southern California Edison Blog

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. Assess On-Net Fiber Optic Maps. The telecom industry is rapidly transforming. They aren’t the only ones.

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Change Your Management Style To Meet Today’s Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

It says we still have a long way to go in improving workplace cultures, and moving up workplace engagement from the worldwide current dismal 15 percent level. They demand to be valued as individuals, and coached to understand and build their strengths, rather than treated as soldiers and directed to march into battle.

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