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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year.

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The Future is Better than You Think

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? Your India strategy? • This is HARD.

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The end or the beginning? Thoughts on the current startup environment

This is going to be BIG.

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. I don't know that either, but here's something I do know. stock market."

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population. Today we’re online 3.1

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. The moderator asked each of us panelists the asinine question, “tell us what you’re doing about WAP!&# (you know, as in “tell us what you’re doing about China?&# Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

It’s worth remembering that with each technology reset, we need to reset the rules of capitalism so that the structure of our economy suits the tools we do business with. Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. And the new internet firms?