Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. That's 30 years ago, folks. By 2010, that percentage had declined to a mere 3%. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. companies went public. Will it help?

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IPO Private Equity Initial Public Offering Balance Sheet 78

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. Those teams are among 50 globally participating in the Founder.org program’s second-year class. Seven received venture investments of up to $2.5

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Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 Corporate venture capital (CVC) represented 45% of the total capital raised. The fund is done in partnership with several top tier venture capital funds including Accel, A16Z, KPCB, Spark Capital and others.

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Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20