(2010-07-15) Blank Startup Exit Market Change

Steve Blank shows the change in the Exit Plan market for Start Up-s since 1979. (IPO-s have never recovered since the DotCom bubble burst, and M And A has shrunk the past 3 years.) He notes the emergence of Late Stage Private Financing as a new technique.

He notes how non-software companies, being more capital-intensive, are even more hosed than software startups. Danger for macro Innovation?

Good time for starting a Life Style Company?

Update: Eric Ries wonders if the IPO has become unnecessary, and whether future Organization Models will be based on Conglomerate-s of low-capital post-LeanStartup-s. I Commented that I have a hard time seeing new conglomerates working better than the old ones. I'd rather have a loose Network Economy.