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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. The Exit Problem.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. Journal Community. Message Center ( new).