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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. does not exceed 500, which studies show is the level required to support 3% annual U.S. Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up. ” (ix) The U.S.

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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. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 An unprecedented number of startups, over 100 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

The market may have a taste for $100 million initial public offerings today, but that’s because there is a liquidity problem, not because there is something inherently wrong with raising $50 million or less in an IPO.

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