Startup Trends

 

Businesses Face High Rates of Infant Mortality

If you want to explain the pattern of business failure, think of the analogy of infant mortality. The odds that a business will die are highest in its infancy and drop over time. In fact, by the time that companies enter their teenage years, the odds that they will go under have flattened out. A…

 

 

How to Choose a Business Incubator

Everyone would love their startup to be the next Pinterest or Instagram — a business that rockets to the top quickly.  But getting a startup off the ground depends on many factors.  Among them, you need a talented team, a great product or service, strong marketing and sales, a business…

Rarity of High Growth Young Companies

Policy makers love young high growth companies for their job creating capabilities. However, they are often quite naïve about how rare these companies actually are. According to the Organization of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) publication, Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2011, less…

Crazy Valuations: Instagram Deal Worth More Than New York Times

The news sounds like something out of a novel:  a high tech company with 13 employees and less than 2 years old, gets acquired for a breath-taking $1 billion by Facebook.  That was the news announced earlier today all over the tech Web. The company is Instagram. In case you’re not familiar…

Tech Startup Market Hot Again?

We’ve gotten used to hearing bad economic news, to the point that most of us just tune it out now. After all, you can only take so much bad news without it wearing you down. But could the good times be back again? Judging from reports about Y Combinator’s recent Demo Day, it may be…

Startup Company Growth

Everyone – entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers, employees and just plain concerned citizens – would like to see new companies add workers. Especially right now, the U.S. economy needs businesses of all ages and sizes to create jobs for those who are unemployed or entering the labor force…

Nardo’s Natural Survived and Thrived from Appearing on TV’s Shark Tank

The dream of many small business product companies is to appear on the popular ABC reality show Shark Tank, where entrepreneurs present a business plan to a panel of five savvy self-made multimillionaires and billionaires in hopes that one or more of them will invest in the business, not just with…

Emerging Markets for High Tech Ideas

Why don’t inexperienced entrepreneurs with high tech business ideas sell those ideas to existing companies with the knowhow and resources to exploit them successfully? Since companies like Apple and Cisco have shown their skill at bringing new products to market successfully, having them exploit…

Big Vision Requires a Great Team and a Leader Who Gets It

“It is difficult to come up with a description of what a “common” entrepreneur looks like or acts like, or to pinpoint the necessary skills or experience one must have….but there is one thing all entrepreneurs have in common: Vision.” ~ Matthew Toren and Adam Toren in Small Business, Big…

Getting Your Invention To Market

The ingenuity of inventors never ceases to amaze me. Whether it’s Post It notes, zippers or velcro, our lives have been greatly influenced by inventors and their inventions. But how does a modern inventor get their product to market? There are several ways. Market Via Your Own Website For…

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