{"id":2181,"date":"2012-01-16T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2012-01-11T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T03:11:01","slug":"the-life-of-a-modern-tech-start-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-life-of-a-modern-tech-start-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of a Modern Tech Start-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/011212_0259_TheLifeofaM1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.crunchbase.com\/\">CrunchBase <\/a>advertises itself as a &#8220;free database of technology companies, people, and investors.&#8221; Going through the data the writers at <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/01\/03\/crunchbaseexits\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> looked at the life of successful start-up companies in the past decade or so and found that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average successful company raises $25.3 million and sells for $196.8 million, for a 676% investor return<\/li>\n<li>Companies that have an IPO instead of selling raise an average of $580.3 million and go public with a market capitalization of $2.3 billion for a first-day return of 303%<\/li>\n<li>Older companies aren&#8217;t necessarily worth more \u2013 if you get an early offer it might be worth it to sell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see some neat graphs and learn more about the likely fate of your potentially successful start-up <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/01\/03\/crunchbaseexits\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/01\/03\/crunchbaseexits\/\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrunchBase advertises itself as a &#8220;free database of technology companies, people, and investors.&#8221; Going through the data the writers at TechCrunch looked at the life of successful start-up companies in the past decade or so and found that: The average successful company raises $25.3 million and sells for $196.8 million, for a 676% investor return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/011212_0259_TheLifeofaM11.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}