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VC Decision Process
The Complex VC Decision Process – Flowchart. Updated for 2022 – by CJ Cornell
Entrepreneurship
57 Small Business Statistics and Trends for 2020
What a wonderful repository of small business and entrepreneurship statistics and data. The summary: If you are a small business owner in the United States you are in good company. According to the United States Small Business Administration, there are 30.7 million small businesses that employ over 59.9 million employees. Small
Entrepreneurship
Startup Trends and Stats
Startup Failure Rate and 80+ Other Startling Statistics About Startups A great piece of research on startup statistics and trends: Some highlights: Startup Failure Rate Statistics Incompetence, at 46%, is the most common reason why businesses fail, according to a Statistic Brain study. The percentage of startups that fail after
Entrepreneurship
What is an ICO? (Infographic)
To get new startup ideas off the ground, aspiring business owners are faced with many options for funding, including bootstrapping (self-financing) their venture, taking out a short term business loan, or tapping into the boom of cryptocurrency by launching an ICO to raise capital. An ICO gives companies the funds
Entrepreneurship
What does it cost to run a startup?
A rather interesting infographic/analysis on the annual cost to run a small startup , in different cities around the world (assuming your startup is at the point where it can actually start paying developers): Staff.com is based on the idea of hiring employees from all around the world. And we’re
Funding
Startup Funding Infographic
An excellent overview of the kinds of funding available for entrepreneurs (startup funding). But this can be very misleading in a way: The “money available” and amounts invested absolutely do not reflect the likelihood of attracting funding from each source – nor do the amounts indicate how effective the funding
Funding
Splitting Equity With Investors – Infographic
The infographic below is a very good overview of startup funding, particularly for first-time entrepreneurs, from our friends at Funders and Founders. For new entrepreneurs the chart can be a tad overwhelming. When you’re scraping for your first few dollars from friends and family it’s hard to look ahead
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Success Without College
Below is an ironic infographic that so nicely illustrates how some of our most iconic (and wealthiest) entrepreneurs never graduated college. This is an attractive meme based largely on casual evidence. Apparently this evidence is enough to power the belief, or implication, that college is irrelevant or even detrimental to
Entrepreneurship
Crowdfunding: Saving the U.S. Economy [Infographic]
Crowdfunding: Saving the U.S. Economy [Infographic]