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Those best placed to take advantage will be those who provide founders with a platform of support and services.
It is increasingly common for growth investors like Elevation or DST to provide founders and early shareholders with some liquidity before an IPO.
Spearheaded by a group of Korean-American entrepreneurs, SparkLabs seeks to provide founders with a network of mentors on par with the ones their peers in Silicon Valley have access to, in addition to angel funding and non-financial resources.
The OTRs are meant to provide founders and investors, always the mainstay group at Disrupt, a close-quarters opportunity to engage in conversations with top figures in core categories.
Footnote: In my mind, there are two blogs that provide founders with a the best library of clear, high-signal information around fundraising, covering everything from tactics to strategy: VentureHacks and Chris Dixon's blog.
Secondary markets for private shares, such as SecondMarket and SharesPost, provide founders, employees, angels, and institutional investors with a new avenue for liquidity, matching them and their shares with outside demand.
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Insourcing provides founders a cost-effective way to establish their own culture without having to adopt the typical "tech" flavor.
It is close to the offices of other companies like Snapchat and Facebook, providing founders easy access to others around them.
It also provides founders the much-needed liquidity that in turn makes them comfortable enough to continue to strive for the monster exits originally targeted by all involved.
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