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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Venture capital is relatively new in the history of financing new businesses, but it has an outsized impact. Venture-backed startups have created trillions of dollars in shareholder value and comprise a large proportion of the stock market. About 10 percent of billion-dollar startups were bootstrapped or self-financed.…
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Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
My own data on billion-dollar companies shows that more than 90 percent were venture backed. The rest either were bootstrapped, meaning they did not raise VC funding and grew on their modest profits in the initial years, or were self-financed through founders who had the means to invest in their own companies.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Audacious teams, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, are trying to compete with Google head-on by building massive horizontal search engines. Rather than crawling and indexing thing... See more
mirror.xyz • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique Search Engines
Eric Eldon
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Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups
failory.com
Start-up tech companies with no revenue are regularly valued to be worth hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars, and we act surprised when they don’t live up to these expectations. Some people go on a $10,000 vacation but spend twenty minutes each day looking for free parking. We comparison shop for smartphones. We think we have an idea of
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