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After failed $100bn EY offer, TPG buys Crowe’s healthcare consulting unit

Private Equity Insights

EY’s split plans, which would have spun off the consulting business as a public company, were scrapped in April amid objections from US audit partners. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io Source: Consulting.us Can’t stop reading?

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What Happened In The 2010s

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Here are the big things that happened in tech, startups, business, and more in the decade that is ending today, in no particular order of importance. 2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. And so I will.

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Innovation In Capital Markets

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

You don’t have to be wealthy to invest in crypto startups. I cannot think of a public company that allows its shareholders that level of impact on their direction. Why, for example, does one have to be wealthy to invest in startups in the US? Anyone can do it.

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The metrics that matter for a successful exit

Insight Partners

startups founded in 2018 that used Carta for cap table management: 49% have shut down, 5% were acquired, and just 0.2% only four made it to a public listing. At Insight, weve found that successful companies plan for every stage of their journey, all the way through to exit. Consider the 3,067 U.S. An exceptional team.

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3 Tech Stocks Already Using Artificial Intelligence to Their Advantage

The Motley Fool

For one, AI has the potential to add lots of value to large companies immediately. Second, the main beneficiaries may not be promotional new startups, but rather already-large public companies with scale and proprietary data, which will be able to automate both customer and employee-facing applications to boost their profits.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

It''s a solid exit to a company that has lots of revs, is growing, and together will form a very formidable player in the data backup space--one that can definitely be a public company in the next couple of years. I liked meeting Rob so much that when I drove across the country that summer, I made it a point to go visit him.

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Unlimited Capital

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

If that were the case, every idea, every startup, every person would be able to get the capital they need/want. But it is true that for some things, some companies, some ideas, there is effectively unlimited capital. I don’t think there is unlimited capital. And I see proof every day that is not the case.

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