In recent years, couch-surfing website Airbnb has also been a hot start-up.
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But late-stage investors, who paid high valuations for a stake in the hot start-ups, will lose money if the public market values those firms less than they did.
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"Then it comes out, " says the 30-year-old Kimjacobs: They wonder if they could enlist God's support in picking hot start-ups, or at the very least get the Creator to lay off the vengeance.
The hot new start-ups are snatched up before they really have a chance to make their presence felt.
Hot start-ups include 7TM Pharma, Egalet, NS Gene, and ACE Biosciences.
Sheboygan Falls, a modestly-sized city of about 7, 600 residents in northeast Wisconsin, is not commonly considered to be a hot-spot for clean-technology start-ups or a haven for green-minded consumers.
But this strategy offers much more in terms of quicker ROI and minimized risk, and gives investors an opportunity to reinvest those gains in hot new start-ups or diversify their portfolio as current market conditions warrant.
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In recent memory, angels (much like venture capitalists) have been attracted to hot start-ups in fields such as technology or life sciences, although increasingly angels are branching out into other sectors and in niche, mission-based areas.
The Banff Venture Forum this year is going to allow some of the hot new Canadian start-ups present to a group of Canadian and US VCs including Panorama Capital, Azure Capital, Chevron Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, and NGEN Partners.
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Like this year's Knicks, they jumped out to a hot start, at 25-9, before going 11-9 over the next 20 contests.
This year his company, Start Today, and its scalding-hot e-commerce site, Zozotown, have made him a billionaire at the age of 35.
The investors' commitments set the stage for what would be Singapore's second-biggest IPO this year, amid a hot start to 2013 for Southeast Asian markets and deals.
Shares of red-hot mobile advertising play Millennial Media are off to a rousing start on their first day of trading in the public market.
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"I had to strike while the iron was hot, " says Ms. Brett, 48, who named her start-up Veronica Brett after an aunt who died of breast cancer in 1975.
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Photo sharing has become one of the hot areas in the social sector in recent months with a large number of start-ups competing for users.
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Senior supervising producer Christabel Nsiah-Buadi just joined us last week so we thought we'd start her off in the hot seat.
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