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Exit Activity Up 25% in 2010, as Signs Point to 2011 as "The Year of the IPO"
Exit activity for venture-backed companies moved closer to levels seen prior to the recent economic downturn, according to figures released today by industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. 514 companies achieved liquidity in 2010, netting $39.3 billion, a 25% increase in exits from 2009.
46 venture-backed companies went public in 2010, raising $3.4 billion. That's a five-fold increase from the 8 IPOs that raised $903 million in 2009. M&A activity did drop off in the fourth quarter of the year, but overall it was ahead of 2009 as well, with 445 M&As raising $33.9 billion.
The Great Credit Crisis Swindle - How Entrepreneurs Can Survive it
Seen the headlines recently? These are scary times. Entrepreneurs are far too busy to focus on the mayhem in the markets - and they know that they cannot do anything about it. So the standard response is just to deal with it as a background worry. But some re-assessing of the external market reality can be useful at times like this. I have had lots of calls along the lines of "what the heck is going on and how does this impact the business we are working on?" This is my condensed, hopefully practical, advice to entrepreneurs.
The Other Startup Exit: SitePoint Marketplace
About a year ago, the so-called "eBay exit," in which startups sold themselves on eBay, got a lot of buzz after an article in USA Today. We picked up the story as well and noted a number of relatively high profile eBay start up exits, the most famous of which is probably the 2006 eBay sale of online calendar startup Kiko for $250,100. But the preferred quick public sale location for startups may no longer be eBay. That title may now belong to the SitePoint Marketplace.
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