Startups who hold off on publishing sometimes cite the need to protect intellectual property, but critics of the practice point to another reason: With early -
stage capital already hard to come by, companies run the risk of scaring off investors if they open their underbaked ideas to rigorous scientific scrutiny.
Not exact matches
As we've noted before, VC firms are raising larger and larger funds, pumping
capital into venture - backed companies at the various
stages, and likely inflating
already - inflated tech valuations.
Though the trend is still at an early
stage, it is worth paying attention to for two reasons: unions may represent a new source of
capital for your company, and unions want to invest in worker - friendly businesses and therefore may one day have the same kind of impact on private - equity deals that socially responsible investors have
already had on the stock market.
Now that Canada Goose is publicly traded, and its original private equity investor Bain has
already made its big exit, it would theoretically be easier for a big luxury house with significant
capital to buy into its next
stage of growth by making an unsolicited bid.
Practically unheard of last year, coin offerings have
already outpaced early
stage venture
capital.