Posts in Entrepreneurs
Labor’s Links

Quick – to aptly recognize Labor Day, everyone go update their LinkedIn profiles. You won’t be alone: LinkedIn membership has tripled in the past three years and now stands at about 315 million professionals, of whom two-thirds live outside the United States…

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Bitcoin of the Realm

2013 in a word? According to at least one economist it was: Bitcoin – a secure peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency created in 2009. New Bitcoins are mined by software programmers, and although users can remain anonymous, central to the system is a public database and sequential record of all transactions,,,

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Chasing the Unicorn

Among the various images of venture capitalists, add one more: unicorn chasers. For it turns out that the billion dollar exit that most VCs obsessively stalk may not be mythical, but they are extremely rare. Seed-stage fund Cowboy Ventures went through the math for the past decade, and found 39 companies valued at over the elusive $1 billion milestone…

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The Cleantech Bust

Most businesses experience a cycle of booms and busts.  In the investment community, there is always a lot of talk about the booms — and far less on the busts.  And for early-stage companies, there is a sector which has seen a particularly impressive and widespread crash: cleantech. Like an ill-advised victory banner…

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