The Effect of Flush Private Markets on Software IPOs
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 29, 2018
The venture capital markets are flush with capital. We’re approaching the heady days of the dot com era. In that epoch, despite the record volumes of venture dollars, startups went public quickly, in 4-5 years. Today, that timeframe is no longer realistic. In fact, the surfeit of private dollars delay IPOs. From 2000-2005, the “typical” IPO-bound startup listed on an exchange 5 years after founding.
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