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Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy

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Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Management buyout. There’s also the added bonus that you’ll have to do a lot less due diligence. Who needs an exit strategy? Family succession.

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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.

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

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EyeBlaster’s Second Shot at IPO: Will it Work This Time?

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T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. It requires months of preparation from management and a tiring roadshow process, in order to convince potential investors on the viability of the company and its plans for growth. Revenue inched up only two percent to $65.1 million in 2009.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. It’s not hard to see why. Halfbrick Studios.

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

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” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. “… in recent years, outsourced software and manufacturing jobs have largely been replaced by millions of low-wage service jobs in fast-food, retail, and the like.

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