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Kauffman Research: Study of U.S. Metros With Most High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurs Provide Lessons for Other Regions

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Kauffman研究报告:美国大城市高新技术移民集聚 为其他地区树榜样 The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation recently released a research report entitled "Lessons for U.S. Metro Areas: Characteristics and Clustering of High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurs". The study shows that immigrant-owned businesses are more likely to locate in ethnically diverse metro areas that have high foreign-born populations. That's important for metro areas hoping to attract and retain this fast-growing pool of high-impact founders.

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Q1 2014 Global PE&VC Benchmarking & Fund Performance Report

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2014年第一季度全球私募股权和风险投资标杆分析及基金业绩报告 According to PitchBook's Q1 2014 Global PE & VC Benchmarking & Fund Performance report, one-year horizon [tooltip text="IRR" gravity="nw"]The internal rate of return (IRR) is a rate of return used in capital budgeting to measure and compare the profitability of investments.

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Healthcare Companies Dominate Early IPO Activity in 2014

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医疗保健公司占据2014年度初期首次公开募股活动 Healthcare companies have dominated IPO activity so far in 2014. Through the first two months of the year, 21 VC-backed companies have completed initial public offerings (IPO) on a U.S. stock exchange, with an overwhelming 20 of those companies coming out of the healthcare industry

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When Venture Capital Met Big Data

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当风险投资与大数据相遇 "Big data" was one of the hottest topics in 2013. According to CB Insights, from Hadoop distributors to text mining platforms, private Big Data companies raised $1.28B across 127 deals in the first half of 2013. With an average of over $210M in funding and more than 20 financing deals per month, industry pundits will have some credibility when they inevitably describe 2013 as the “year of Big Data”.

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