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Go Big or Go Home: It’s a binary outcome for marketplace start-ups

Version One Ventures

The acquiring company can just plug that product into their existing distribution channel to help round out their current product suite and grab more market share (and some might argue that even this is happening less frequently). eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007).

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

Pascal's View

years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive.

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