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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

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Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

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Chances are you’ll come face-to-face with a dusty web design with information buried behind confusing menus, documents with inscrutable titles, and slideshows that move at the speed of continental drift. Ten years ago? All you have to do is fire up a municipal website.

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10 Keys To Giving The Right Entrepreneur Your Money

Startup Professionals Musings

But these requirements may go away with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act passed into law back in 2012. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Startups are private companies with no common document filing requirements.

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Next Generation Hardware | Miselu Presents Musical Democracy at SXSW

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Although, the overall message of the film is quite bleak as they point to the mediocrity that more access to creation and freedom of distribution creates. . “The idea was to build something that ‘shows’ and ‘enchants,’” which is, in fact, what the Japanese word Miselu translates as.

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Add Startups to Balance Your Portfolio, If You Dare

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Startups are private companies with no common document filing requirements. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012. Start in a business domain you know well.

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