The Differences Between Venture Investing and Public Equity

In the venture world you either have going public or you have M&A activity, mergers and acquisitions. And it historically was more selling the company to the public. More recently perhaps because of Sarbanes Oxley in the wake of the dot com bubble there's been a lot more M&a activity. If you sell to Google or Apple maybe you don't get quite as much but you're certainly getting a very stable situation. You don't have to worry about keeping your stock price up and it's generally a place where your people want to work.