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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today). Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us. Goldman release a report on us. We were hot. Until we weren’t. That’s OK.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp, the SPAC focused on fintech recently closed a $ 201 million IPO at NASDAQ. He led the company’s global business operations through its centers in the US, the UK, Spain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Mexico, Australia, Poland, and Israel.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price. The ability to copy and disseminate banned ideas undermined repressive regimes from Poland to Iran to the Soviet Union. Are we in the beginnings of a tech bubble – yes. A few will be worth much, much more.

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