mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2008 | startups, entrepreneurship, vc, liquidity, todo, opus-5
Quoted: Here's the problem. The company/web service creation process needs some kind of end game. The entrepreneurs who spend years and risking a ton need a way to get paid for that effort. And those of us who finance their efforts need to get some return on our investment. We can argue about the magnitude of the return we need and a host of other things, but the fact remains that without a path to liquidity, all the innovation that is being created by the entrepreneur/VC equation will stop happening.
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It turns out that there is another private liquidity market under development called Opus-5.
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