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Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy

Up and Running

Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Management buyout. Management buyout: If you’ve built a business whose legacy you want to see continued long after you’re gone, you may want to consider turning to your employees. Who needs an exit strategy?

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Trimming The Hedges, Planning For A Rainy Day

Haystack

Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more. Just like optimism can compound on itself, so too can hesitation and a bent toward slightly more conservative cash and planning management.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.