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Exits needs some description

What is 'Exits' section? Can we elaborate what does it mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenorb (talk • contribs) 17:03, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kenorb!

Exit in venture capital occurs when an investor decides to get rid of their stake in a company. It often happens when Merger & Acquisition (M&A) happens or the company goes public (IPO).

For example, the investor Anna invested in startup Bulba. Some time laterm startup Bulba was acquired by Amazon. This M&A is an exit for the investor Anna, as she gets some money in accordance with the size of her stake in Bulba and Bulba's valuation. If the investment was really cool, usually investor would het a nice amount of money — like 2x, 5x, 10x and more from initial investment. Exits do not happen very often, that's why in venture capital community it's quite cool to have some successful exits and all the investors are proud of them. Eflyant (talk) 17:08, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Andreessen Horowitz makes several investments a year. What if we turned them into a table instead of writing a sentence for each of them? ThaiTee (talk) 17:29, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm ThaiTee I don't know. DGG, I think I've seen you comment on a couple of those articles, and if I remember correctly you've said things like "oh this investment/raising funds stuff is just run of the mill, not worth writing into an article". Do I remember that correctly? At any rate, tables are overrated (difficult to edit, visually overwhelming); the current organization, in individual sections, isn't very encyclopedic either: we need readable prose, really. Drmies (talk) 18:03, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
DGG, I just posted on COIN about this and related articles. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:24, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible to write readable prose for this sort of material, dividing up the sentences into years.I do it like this:

"In 1999, they invested in X <ref , Y <ref and Z <ref . In 2000, they invested in ....

This can be expanded into

"In 1999, they invested $999 in X <ref , $9999 in Y <ref and $999 in Z <ref . In 2000, they invested in ....

What tends to make this unreadable is giving too many details about the type and location of the company, and the month and date. If the company is notable, information about it will be in the linked article. If not, it will be in the linked reference. However, if I can express it briefly , I sometimes include some of this, eg. the electronics company Z. If there was some routine regulatory or legal attention, a link to that can be added. If major, it may take a phrase, (which was challenged by ...<ref ), or when appropriate a separate sentence or even paragraph or section. I'll sometimes indicate expansion into a new market by saying , for example "the Swiss company X. "

If there are a great many, it can be limited to investments in notable companies (using the WP definition of having an article) or major discriminating generally by $. DGG ( talk ) 00:35, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

. DGG ( talk ) 00:35, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DGG - I've improved the 2014 section a bit using your feedback, what are your thoughts? I can rewrite the rest of the sections as well if you think it would help make the article read better. ThaiTee (talk) 05:52, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A rewrite would be good--but please carefully separate the wheat from the chaff. Not all these individual factoids are really worth mentioning. Drmies (talk) 16:39, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, Drmies! ThaiTee (talk) 05:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I made it easier for everyone here. I created a nav box template which I added to the bottom of the page. The template can be used to add the investments so that people can easily navigate. I would then suggest shortening the list of investments on the page it would look too promotional - in my opinion - to list everything they have invested in inside the content of the page. I would remove most of their investments and just talk about some of the major ones in the body and keep the rest about the history of the company. Just a suggestion, but the nav box was needed. --CNMall41 (talk) 20:27, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]