STARTUPS NEED

ACQUISITION

AS AN EXIT PATH

Startup acquisitions promote the building of knowledge, recycling of talent, and flow of capital through the ecosystem. Each of those components are key to building new startups and stimulating the investment needed to grow them to scale.

Founders say...

...acquisitions are a good thing, and policymakers shouldn't make it harder to be acquired.

...acquisitions foster knowledge transfer and ecosystem growth.

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...acquisitions build generational wealth and expand opportunities.

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...serial entrepreneurs pour their talent and resources into the next thing.

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...acquisitions are necessary to stimulate and sustain innovation-focused investment.

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Startup acquisition experiences

Click on a dot on the map below to read more acquisition stories from around the U.S.

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What role do successful exits play in the startup ecosystem?

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True or False: IPOs and Acquisitions are interchangeable forms of startup exit.

Reveal Answer

The sliders below represent all of the successful exits across the past decade and the monetary value of those exits for three U.S. ecosystems of different sizes.

Use the sliders to show the percentage of exits that were acquisitions and monetary value created by those acquisitions:

Top U.S. ecosystem, i.e. Silicon Valley

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Top 35 U.S. ecosystem, i.e. Salt Lake City-Provo

50%
AcquisitionsIPOs
50%

Top 100 U.S. ecosystem, i.e. Omaha-Lincoln

50%
AcquisitionsIPOs
50%
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