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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market). discipline & focus.
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APRIL 5, 2010
They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. January 2009 where he said in a column on Tax Cuts for Teachers : “One of the smartest stimulus moves we could make would be to eliminate federal income taxes on all public schoolteachers so more talented people would choose these careers. You can imagine the complexities.
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OCTOBER 21, 2009
2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. A recent example would be Compuware’s $295 million acquisition of Gomez , a networking monitoring company.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.
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MAY 25, 2013
By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. This happens at acquisition time, too. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 And reinventing itself. And some firms will go under. And others will emerge. That’s normal. It’s a market, after all. hours / day. .”
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JUNE 18, 2010
Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. -Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.
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MAY 4, 2010
Online advertising platform for local businesses; ReachLocal reported over $203 million in revenue for 2009, compared to around $146 million in 2008. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 It seems like M&A ebbs and flows through periods of rapid acquisition followed by years of divestitures. million loss in 2008.
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