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Venture Capital Firms Broaden Horizons: Early and Late-Stage Investments Fuel Innovation and Growth

The Startup Magazine

Venture capital: it’s the jet fuel behind many of the most explosive startups turning them into household names. Late-stage investing is about fueling the rockets, providing the capital necessary for scaling up operations, entering new markets, and, ultimately, preparing for an exit, be it an IPO or acquisition.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. Our world is changing, and fast. pivot the business. change the CEO.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Deflationary Economics now favors us. Stuff you may not know about LA?

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OG Unicorns?—?Where Are They Now?

View from Seed

To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions. Most startups that hit this level did so via IPO or acquisition value. IPO value, $2.8B IPO value, $1.5B

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX.

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My AdExchanger Interview

VC Adventure

I think Boulder is increasingly becoming known as one of the leading start-up cities in the United States (for example, here’s a recent BusinessWeek story naming Boulder the #1 city in the country for start-ups). What are your thoughts about M&A and IPOs – and a successful exit for ad tech startups?

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. We discussed: 1. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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