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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation. For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. There has to be a better way.