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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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Decoding and learning from a business failure

Berkonomics

Investors learn too, and often invest in a failed entrepreneur a second time if believing that those lessons have been well learned, Success can teach lessons too. The economic environment changing downward. Yes, it works both ways. A successful entrepreneur who has seen the movie before is even more valued. Including cash.

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The First Generation of the Talent Software Wars

Tomasz Tunguz

SuccessFactors 39 1300 30 2007 6. Interestingly, despite the smaller contract sizes, SuccessFactors invested substantially more in sales and marketing as a percentage of revenue to generate their top-line growth than Taleo. Taleo 85 1000 85 2005 6. The companies pursued slight different strategies in the market.