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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by andruby on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:00AM (#9973651)
Liquidity for the founders, early employees and previous investors can also be a reason to have another funding round.
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by djhn on Thursday July 30, 2015 @06:42AM (#9974123)
What kind of situations would result in previous investors looking for liquidity? Assuming it is a trade for equity, it would be counter-intuitive do divest a fast-growing company if you are at least risk-neutral, which VCs should be?
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by andruby on Thursday July 30, 2015 @07:06AM (#9974174)
Not VC's. But perhaps friends, family or fools who helped on a seed round. Granted, in the case of Github this seems very unlikely.
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