Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
The de-SPAC process is essentially the process that occurs after a SPAC has agreed to terms with an acquisition target where the two entities are fully merged. The former are often institutional shareholders who can earn rates of return as high as 11% for “loaning” money to the SPAC in search of its target. 1990-1998 13.3%
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998.
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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.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.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 21, 2010
Yaacov previously founded PictureVision, a start up sold to Kodak in 1998 for $150 million. Catch Media’s “Play Anywhere&# technology enables users to access media stored in their home computers (digital movies, music, books, etc) through a range of devices, including mobile phones, DVRs and car media players.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.
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