Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate of 15 years ago.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007). Be sure to set your expectations and business model accordingly. In fact, the only reason you’d ever acquire a marketplace is if it were a large, standalone unit that could grow on its own.

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