Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Stay private only if you can grow fast enough to pay your employees and investors. Below we bring you the main soundbites from the event: Larry Leibowitz took the lead: ‘In 2010, there were $270 billion awarded to IPOs; but in the first 9 months of 2011, IPOs only generated half that much. Also more expensive.

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