Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. So what’s left?

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Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations. Last Man Standing.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The most noteworthy M&A deals of 2009 were Siemens’ $418 million acquisition of Solel; Medtronic’s acquisition of Ventor, estimated at $325 million; and IBM’s $225 million acquisition of Guardium. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. This is the blog post I needed to read.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Mce Systems. MailVision.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Oh, or your main traffic sources and the visitor acquisition metrics? That’s what you are seeing in the distribution above. I’ve said that all data in aggregate is crap. The plots are from the American Time Use Survey , a multi-year study from 2003 to 2015 conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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