Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Las Vegas Silicon Valley Phoenix Montana 120

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort. There’s also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin , a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business.

Small Business 65

Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 65

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Enterprise.

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Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

. “Given the strong strategic fit between the two companies, joining forces will allow us to further accelerate the industry’s transition to IP-based networks,&# Kobi Ben-Zvi, founder and chief executive officer of Wintegra, said. iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel.

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Since its founding in 2006, BlaBlaCar’s story has had many chapters. We filed Chapter 11, and had to restructure and rebuild the company, which we sold in 2006. Back in 2006, that was a very weird concept. There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Personal Network: Ask your friends and colleagues for suggestions. Send them a note about what you are looking for and ask them to pass it around to their network.

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San Francisco Startup PHP San Diego 44

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In 2006, John Paulson raised a $147 million fund to bet against subprime mortgages. Network effects occur when increased usage of a good or service leads to an increase in its value, which in turn makes it more attractive and this leads to further increases in usage. The fund generated $17 billion in returns in 2007.

Startup 28

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

IPgallery’s deployed converged communication solutions include core network centric solutions and Value Added Services for residential and business subscribers. IPgallery’s products and solutions are deployed worldwide, including in Tier-1 service providers’ networks. Logia Group. Mer Telecom. -

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103