start ups by US states and industry

The Chart shows Decline in start ups in US

 Growth in "start ups" by US states and Industry .Only the  Fintech industry recorded a  growth in start ups by over 5%. While services, wholesale, manufacturing and transportation and logistics recorded negative growth rates

European tech start ups with the highest valuations

These are the top 10 European start ups with highest valuation

Spotify, Global Fashion group and Delivery hero are among the top 3 European start ups with the highest valuation.

Spotify is valued at $8.5billion with a total equity funding of $1.0billion,
The global fashion group is valued at $3.5billlion with a equity of $1.5billion.
Delivery Hero ranks number 3 most valued start up with 3.1billion USD  having been funded to the extent of 1.3billion USD

Pinterest Top 5 biggest VC Investors

These are the top 5 biggest Pinterest Inventors s

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The list of VC funding behind moocs ( massive online open courses ) start up Coursera

List  of VC funding and equity Investment in online open education Course start up   "Coursera"

List of Venture Capital Funding in the  massive Open Online  Course (MOOC) Coursera. SO far it has managed to generate more than $135million from 5 rounds of Funding  Deals

With a  $49.5 million Series C funding round , well known  open  massive online course start up ( MOOC) online learning start up which conducts open online courses  Coursera,  concluded its  5th found of VC funding  which  saw VC deals from  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and International Finance Corporation. Times Internet Limited (TIL), which owns the Times of India and other media properties, also participated in this

Coursera  also recently  announced   that it expects a second closing of this round that will bringits total funding to  $60 million. GSV Asset Management and Learn Capital are expected to  will participate in this second closing

As of today Coursera conducts 1,100 courses to almost 15 million users.Coursera enables users to advance their career, mid career or advance skills,as professionals or just for the sake of knowing and enjoying new thing to learn .Coursera's huge chunk of its users come from China ( with 1 million users ) followed by India and then 30% users from the countries of Latin America As of July, 2015, Coursera had more than 1000 courses from 119 institutions and 13 million users from 190 countriess,

these are startup business verticals that survives till the 4th year

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These are the top 10 Reasons  according to start ups on why new business fail

These are the Industry verticals in  Percentage which are  still operating after 4 Years

1. Finance Insurance and Real Estate :58 % 
2. Education and Health 56 % 
3. Agriculture 56 % 
4. Services 55 % 
5. Wholesale 54 % 
6. Mining 51 % 
7. Manufacturing 49 %
8. Construction 47 % 
9. Retail 47 % 
10. Transportation, Communication and Utilities 45 %
11. Information 37 %

In terms of industry statistics there are no concrete research and data about how many start ups fails every year , but generally according to  investment banking and Venture funding firms

The common rule of thumb is that of 10 start-ups, only three or four fail completely. Another three or four return the original investment, and one or two produce substantial returns. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

According to a recent Harvard Study three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.

Another find was  a majority of start ups fail because of single one reason. Not knowing how to scale up. The second reason is a concept which is ahead of its time , while  a few VCs which
onlinemarketing-trends.com spoke to spends spoke too " were unanimous in their views that they are willing to fund business that are ahead of its time, however it needs to scale up.. irrespective of the product is niche or mass c