Andrew Payne
OCTOBER 30, 2011
Developed out of necessity by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to host the Linux kernel, it’s recently exploded in popularity. Often, the merging can be automated: the merger has a much better chance of success with 10 small commits than one big one. If I told you it’s a source code version control system, you’re might then think, “who cares?”.
David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers).
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YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
This merger likely makes Tech in Asia the largest technology blog in Southeast Asia, edging it ahead of fellow Singapore-based technology blog e27 , which organizes annual startup event Echelon , itself a competitor of Tech in Asia’s similarly themed event Startup Asia.
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2011
I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 13, 2012
Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind.
VC Cafe
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
iSkoot, founded in 2005, has an office in Silicon Valley and an R&D center, which employs half the company’s workforce, in Bet Shemesh, Israel. Ernst & Young (E&Y), one of the “Big Four&# global auditors, forecasts Israel will have 24 mergers and acquisitions in 2010, worth about $1.75
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