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

Pascal's View

I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. business model is broken. The pipeline is dry because the U.S.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This seems to be occurring more and more. Board Control.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

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