YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
What about dramatic mergers and acquisitions – aren’t those the panacea to ailing companies? 3) What drives your economic engine. He mentioned that Gillette started faltering in 1998 when its leadership became distracted by non-core projects in the book. Are charismatic superstar CEOs the answer to enduring success?
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.
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thebarefootvc
JANUARY 13, 2014
billion acquisition of Nest , a Silicon Valley based company that sells “smart” thermostats and smoke detectors: - Build vs Buy: Even for a company with significant resources such as Google, it is difficult to innovate beyond core products. A few observations from the just announced Google $3.2
www.ere.net
JULY 15, 2012
The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. WWW search engines. Sadly, the user system that has powered our website since 1998 no longer plays nicely with todays technology. Joshua Letourneau. Interview.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
New Attitude to Acquisition Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. One problem theyve solved is how to think about acquisitions.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out.
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