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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Quality tech news from around the web. There is a huge amount of money sloshing around, and very few deals that are in that sweet spot between obvious and highly risky. What a boring mess.