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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Big acquirers cash out founders, management teams get folded into big organizations, cashflows disappoint, and visions flounder. 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.