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Record Startup Shutdowns Reflect a Market That Is Moving Forward

This year, more venture-backed companies shut down than at any point on record, according to data published last week by ...
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An Early Look at Q3 2026 PE Activity

As we enter the final quarter of 2026, it’s time to look back at private equity (PE) activity last quarter ...
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Buy, Sell, or Wait: What We Learned from Two Private Equity Sponsors, an Investment Banker, a CFO and a Lawyer

Last night, we hosted a panel for the CFO Executive Forum, an Open Future Forum community, on a question that ...
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Control capital for growth. Where venture ends and buyouts begin.

It’s Wednesday and another edition of The Growth Docket. What does “growth equity” mean for me: it’s where venture capital ...
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Record Startup Shutdowns and a Market That Is Moving Forward

This year, more venture-backed companies shut down than at any point on record, according to data published last week by ...
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Private Equity’s Hard Year Has Real Openings

War in the Gulf, an oil spike, rate risk and an AI shock that erased $285 billion of software value ...
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Billion-Dollar Rounds Are Rewriting the Startup Playbook—Is Your Company Ready?

Forget what you thought you knew about startup funding. According to Crunchbase, billion-dollar rounds have moved from anomaly to expectation. ...
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What Is a General Counsel Worth?  

Between the two of us, we have spent a long time in Silicon Valley sitting next to general counsels at ...
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Where We Are on Software M&A 

Each August, I review the software earnings roll-up with one question in mind: What do the numbers mean for the ...
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