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The Year to Be Great

Andreessen Horowitz

A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents. Below, we analyzed data from 77 US-based or -centric companies founded after 2000 that have a $5B+ market cap and highlighted what it takes to be Great by the numbers—and why growth is especially important on that journey.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

Between 2000 and 2002, Industry Canada reported that roughly a quarter of the venture funding for Canadian startups came from the United States, while the converse was not true – Canadian venture capitalists maybe accounted for 1% of venture investments into U.S. Because the U.S.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g.

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