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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. With Wall Street leery of technology companies, tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups and their investors.