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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. business model is broken. business model that drives job growth in emerging growth companies is IPOs. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. The pipeline is dry because the U.S.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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