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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise. Gone is the heyday of the 1990s when firms with simply an idea and little or no revenues could do an IPO. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Insight Center.