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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Ultimately, high-risk venture capital investors need to be rewarded, ideally with high returns, for an ecosystem of innovation to be sustainable.