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Rocket Internet Fund Gets $1B To Invest In Startups
January 20, 2017

Big news from German startup investment company Rocket Internet suggests it plans to come back strong in 2017. Rocket Internet just recently closed a new $1 billion venture fund it will use for investing in early-stage and growth internet startups. Called Rocket Internet Capital Partners...

Startups, Small Businesses Stay Lean, Stick Around Longer
November 21, 2016

Small business tossed up a classic case of good news/bad news to cap off last week, care of a new report from the Kauffman Foundation. The good news: Smaller startups are living — or surviving — longer. The bad news: They are keeping to a modest...

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Startup EarnUp Steps Up On Consumer Debt Paydowns
November 10, 2016

With the latest data coming in from our Investment Tracker, overall fund flow proved anemic for the week that ended November 4, at just under $140 million. Only $35 million of that was earmarked for B2B firms. The U.S. and Europe dominated the fund flows,...

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Job Gains From Startups At Lowest Level In Twenty Years
November 10, 2016

Entrepreneurship was once the backbone of the U.S. economy, but another sign its role in the economy is diminishing comes from the Labor Department, which showed job gains from startups are at the lowest level in the past 20 years. According to a report by The Wall...

Obama Calls On Startups To Bridge Global Economy
June 27, 2016

While all the chatter around Brexit is sending a wave of fear across the world about what global markets will look like in the upcoming days, weeks and months, there’s one group of entrepreneurs that the President of the United States is calling upon to...