If we want to hasten the transformation of education, we should not only acknowledge that we are in the awkward early-growth stage, but fully embrace it.
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The best performing early-stage funds always do better than the best performing growth-stage funds because they get in earlier at lower valuations.
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If you go back and look at the industry statistics and returns of growth-stage funds as a whole vs. early-stage funds as a whole, the returns over time tend to be quite similar.
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As these high growth early stage companies start to list on the public markets and become mature businesses, a new layer of the startup ecosystem around which other startups can be nurtured and launched will be created.
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We have seen a dramatic growth of students interning and working at early-stage companies over the past few years.
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It would help British businesspeople to think bigger, too: the absence of funding for growth is one reason some sell up at a relatively early stage.
Q3 statistics from Gust, which powers a majority of the organized early stage financing world, show a continued expansion of new, high-growth ventures outside the traditional startup centers, along with an increasing number of entrepreneurs seeking their first round of equity financing with products that are fully developed and ready to take to market.
One fund, Accel-IDG Growth Fund III, will be used to back early stage deals while the other fund, Accel-IDG Capital Fund II, will focus on later stage deals.
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Unlike an early-stage startup, Qualtrics has significant customer traction and the resources to pursue a number of growth opportunities.
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Which is why McKinsey argues that the UK is still at a very early stage in reducing debts sufficiently to allow a significant rebound in economic growth (as you will have read here many times, growth tends to remain insipid or worse, while businesses and households repay what they owe - either by choice or by order - because they invest and spend less).
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