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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently. Some of the fail-related research we’ve issued includes: The Downround Tracker.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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2016 Third Update (11/8/16). 2015 Second Update (12/3/2015). 2015 First Update (8/15/2015). 2016 Third Update (11/8/16). 2015 Second Update (12/3/2015). 2015 First Update (8/15/2015). The Maddening Race : We set up 18 VC meetings and hit the road, hard.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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Great venture capitalists invest knowing they’re going to take a lot of losses in order to hit those wins. Likewise, VCs swing hard, and occasionally hit a home run. Those wins often make up for all the losses and then some — they “return the fund.” “ Exit is the important word.

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