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6 Strategies For Startup Exit That Investors Accept

Startup Professionals Musings

According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore.

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Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Ahead For A Startup Exit

Startup Professionals Musings

According to recent National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 20% of venture-backed startups now use this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

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6 New Venture Ending Alternatives You May Contemplate

Startup Professionals Musings

According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Later stage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. We’re less than 8 years old so you can do the math on growth rates and figure out that we’re on an elite trajectory.

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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

Just like everything else, VC investment is subject to the whims of supply and demand. Mid-sized VC firms are increasingly being squeezed by large corporations and private equity firms that are following VCs’ timeless example and starting to take increasing risk. Cheaper capital costs. That has now changed for good.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Over demand led the SV Angel team to double the size of the fund to $20 million.