Emerging Business

EB News of the Week for 1/30/17

*  Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran Says This is a Sure Sign a Business Will Fail  [FoxNews] * 20 Facts About the World’s Billion-Dollar Startups  [Entrepreneur] * Snap Said to Plan to Publicly File for IPO Late Next Week  [Businessweek] * Here are the 5 Scariest Revelations from Pew’s New Cybersecurity Survey  [FastCompany] * Bill Gates […]

January 29, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: Barbara Corcoran, Bill Gates, Billion Dollar Startups, Cybersecurity, EB News, IPO, Snap

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 12/26/16

* These 6 Women Undergrads At MIT Invented A Game Changer For The Blind  [Forbes] * What Kinds of Companies Will Go Public in 2017?  [Entrepreneur] * If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?  [Businessweek] * Breakthrough Brands 2017  [Fortune]  * Was Yahoo’s Email Scanning Part of Government Effort to Reinterpret Fourth Amendment?  [SiliconValleyBusinessJournal]

December 25, 2016 | 1 min read | Tagged: Branding, Brands, EB News, IPO, MIT, Success Predictors, Tactile

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 9/14/15

* 7 Reasons Smart Startups Establish “Coopetition”  [Entrepreneur] * The Startup That Resurrected Matt Damon’s and Ben Affleck’s Long Lost Project  [Inc] * Subscription Box Startups Are the Newest Craze: Cratejoy Can Help You Launch Yours Today  [Forbes] * Tech Firms are Notably Scarce In The IPO Market  [WallStreetJournal] * This is How You Make […]

September 14, 2015 | 1 min read | Tagged: Ben Affleck, Coopetition, Cratejoy, EB News, Front Row, IPO, Matt Damon, Project Greenlight, Subscription Box

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 8/18/14

* 50 Tips On Starting Your Own Company  [Entrepreneur] * Malcolm Gladwell On Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Troublemakers  [Inc] * London Is Now The World’s Crowdfunding Capital  [Forbes] * I Started The ‘Bank of the Future’ While Still In School:  Here’s What I Learned  [Businessweek] * Wayfair Files For $350 million IPO  [Fortune]

August 18, 2014 | 1 min read | Tagged: Banking, Crowdfunding, EB News, Entrepreneurs, FLIP, IPO, Malcolm Gladwell, Start-Up Launch, Wayfair

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 9/16/13

* Twitter IPO: Not Like Facebook  [Businessweek] * Twitter’s $1 Billion Dollar Question  [Fortune] * How 50 Cups of Coffee Can Change Your Life  [Inc] * Harvard’s Intro To Computer Science Enrollment Jumps 590% in 10 Years  [FastCompany] * Patent Fight Erupts Over Kids’ Fads  [WallStreetJournal] * The Habits of The World’s Smartest People  [Entrepreneur]

September 16, 2013 | 1 min read | Tagged: EB News, Harvard, IPO, Networking, Twitter

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Brian J. Burt Partner