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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. Myth #2: Talk to As Many Investors As You Can.

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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. The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing.