The amount of capital available for entrepreneurs when you count the customer market is much larger.
The startup community gave itself a high five in April when the JOBS Act was signed. Crowdfunding would enable startups to reach out to the whole world to get access to funding, not just a small cabal of investors living in a 20-mile radius of Menlo Park.
Continue reading… “Crowdfunding from customers – new class of investors for startup capital”
Best Buy
Electronics retailer Best Buy is headed for the exits. I can’t say when exactly, but my guess is that it’s only a matter of time, maybe a few more years.
Continue reading… “Why Best Buy is gradually going out of business”
Mike Cassidy
No one embodies the classic, sniff-it-out serial entrepreneur more than Mike Cassidy, who has now built and sold four companies (Stylus Innovation, Direct Hit, Xfire and Ruba), some of them with very impressive exits.
Continue reading… “Mike Cassidy: How to build a $500M company in 500 days”
Beware of malicious friends on Facebook.
Lurking in the shadows of your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and eHarmony accounts are con artists, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association, the oldest international investor protection association.
Continue reading… “‘Affinity’ fraudsters target social media sites”
The highest paid of the CEOs was Philippe Dauman, CEO of Viacom.
CEOs didn’t have to cry poor for long. The heads of the nation’s top companies got the biggest raises in recent memory last year after taking a hiatus during the recession.
Continue reading… “CEO Pay Jumps 27% While Workers’ Pay Stalls”
Armed rebels in Libya.
As angry populations roil one Middle Eastern regime after another, and discontent over escalating food prices and lagging living standards is heard elsewhere in the developing world, investors are moving staggering piles of cash out of emerging markets.
Continue reading… “Investors Pull Billions From Emerging Markets”
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