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Re:Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPOs, and ... by smysore on Thursday July 15, 2010 @10:39AM (#1517938)
what about companies that never IPO but grow and become successful private entities (and hence, are never acquired)? that seems like a good place to end up
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Re:Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPOs, and ... by arnorhs on Thursday July 15, 2010 @10:54AM (#1517986)
That's a great argument. But I think his point was that from the VCs point of view that doesn't look like the kind of fast ROI they're always after.
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