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Customer (product) value trumps brand value – M&A data

The Equity Kicker

This chart (which I saw on Broadstuff and was originally published in the Harvard Business Review ) is from audited company accounts following mergers and acquisitions: …we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

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Four New Types of CIO for the Future

www.readwriteweb.com

See Also Putting Information on the Balance Sheet Telecom Spending Spree: Time Warner Cable Snatches Up Enterprise Cloud Hosting and Management Company NaviSite COBOLs Not Dead. Where do you see yourself fitting into this framework? If you want to read more, check out Wangs article for the Harvard Business Review. startupcto

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Citrix Online – a SAAS powerhouse

BeyondVC

Back in 2003 when we were deciding whether or not to sell Expertcity (GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting) to Citrix or continue fighting the fight and attempt to take the company public 1 year later, it was quite a gut-wrenching decision. Everyone knows that hindsight is 20/20.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

billion shekels and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8% in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. Any industrial company that exports part of its production automatically qualifies for benefits under the law.