Andrew Bellay
on July 29, 2010 
"IPOs are extremely important, they're just not relevant," says panelist Sam Schwerin. Are IPOs dead forever? Currently, with an average of 10.4 years from founding to IPO (for the few companies that make it), IPOs don't work for anyone - Angels, VCs, LPs, or Entrepreneurs. Secondary sales (done by panelist Barry Silbert and his company SecondMarket) are giving stakeholders stuck in no man's land a way out. This talk really gets into the nitty gritty of how things might shape up for the future of exit markets - both new and old.
The State of IPO, M&A, and Secondary Markets
07/28/2010, 2:45 pm
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Are IPO's on the uptick? Will the M&A bonanza continue through 2010? What is the update on the Secondary Markets?
- Host: Hale Boggs, Partner, Phelps & Phillips
- Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO, SecondMarket
- Dwight Badger, CEO, Advanced Equities
- Ted Smith, Partner, Union Square Advisors
- Sam Schwerin, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Ventures
Andrew Bellay is the VC & Money editor of AlwaysOn. Feel free to send me cool content, new products you'd like reviewed, or any crazy idea and I'll check it out: andrew@aonetwork.com. 
