Tag: startup

New AI predicts the success of startup companies

It could help investors identify the next unicorn. The machine-learning pipeline used to train the models. Credit: Greg Ross Almost 90% of startups fail, and very few succeed. 21.5% of startups fail in the first year, 30% in the second year, 50% in the fifth year, and 70% in their 10th year. This presents a […]

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Corporate Innovation Through Effective Startup Investing

Corporate investment is an efficient way to help meet a corporation’s vision by harnessing the power of startup innovation. Bringing innovation to a corporate environment is inherently challenging. Many firms have established research and development or corporate development teams, but not innovation teams. Since corporations have complex organizational charts with any array of divisions and […]

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Boosting female representation in the startup world

Notes from a female founder: Boosting female representation in the startup world Being a founder is challenging enough but being a female founder even more so. For centuries, the image of ‘the entrepreneur’ has been that of a white man, with entrenched stereotypes of what he looks and sounds like, and how he behaves. Female […]

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What I Wish I Knew Before Bootstrapping My Startup

Here are some key strategies to focus on when bootstrapping a firm. Bootstrapping your startup means growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It means relying on your own savings and business revenue to operate and grow. We started off Laumière Gourmet Fruits as a bootstrapped firm and it has been definitely difficult, […]

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How to Go From Startup to Global Leader

How does a garage startup achieve success on the world stage? Each year, around 100 million businesses are launched globally. That’s more than three startups per second. In the UK alone, a new tech business was launched every 30 minutes in 2020. Inevitably, the vast majority of these businesses will sadly collapse within five years, with some estimating the […]

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