Jason Ball

JANUARY 18, 2009

To state the glaring obvious, 2009 will spell the end for many venture funds and venture backed companies. Look for “Sale Now On&# signs to change to “Going out of Business Sale&# in 2009. Tags: Mergers and Acquisitions. The word on the street in London still seems to be, “what recession?&#.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. That’s why I will also become a Joby board member upon completion of the proposed merger with RTP. I hope you’ll join us!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-08-27 , on August 27, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.] Reply alan commike , on August 28, 2009 at 12:44 am Said: Steve – How would customer development apply to non-software companies?

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

For the fourth quarter of 2009, venture capital investments into medical device companies increased 13 percent in dollars and 18 percent in deals (quarter over quarter), with over $719 million in fresh capital invested into 87 deals. Sector merger and acquisition activity leaped by 154% in the third quarter of 2009 to $5.6

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I started my company in 2009 out of pure necessity. Prior to founding Rukkus, I was a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs where I was a member of the advisory team for the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger as well as the Groupon IPO. I began with 3 handbags on eBay in 2009. Thanks to Jane Wu Brower, Goalposte LLP. #7

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

My partner had convinced several major Hollywood names that this was the inevitable consequence of the merger of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Reply steveblank , on July 9, 2009 at 10:44 am Said: Tim, Some entrepreneurs can do a startup based on recognizing an opportunity and executing. And at the time it was a plausible scenario.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Pascal's View

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Seller financial performance: acquisitions remain heavily weighted toward Sellers with revenue, and Sellers in the aggregate continue to show improved earnings since 2009. Indemnification trends: median R&W survival periods and escrow sizes have leveled off at 18 months and 10–12% of transaction values, respectively, since 2009.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. Yeah, we started in late 2009, so a little over 10 years old. John Jantsch: Your firm is how old? Jack McGuinness: Yeah.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Epitaph for an Entrepreneur » 43 Responses Michael Curry 2.0 , on June 15, 2009 at 5:27 am Said: You are rapidly becoming one of my favorite writers about entrepreneurship and start-ups. Reply Mark MacLeod , on June 15, 2009 at 9:21 am Said: Thanks for sharing this Steve. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

The TechStars documents were released in February 2009. TheFunded released their “Plain Preferred&# term sheet in August 2009. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only. The Y Combinator documents were released in August 2008. The Series Seed documents were released in March 2010. Board composition.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

From 2005-2009, Mr. Calvoz and his family lived in Europe, during which time he served as Vice President and Executive Committee Member for Travelocity in its London headquarters and received the Sabre Holdings (parent company of Travelocity), Sam Gilliland CEO Award for Outstanding Leadership.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The hole in the NVCA's data, the professor alleges, comes from a factor that perhaps would be obvious if anyone bothered to read those non-existent venture sites: mergers and acquisitions.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Adjusted for inflation andmeasured in 2009 dollars, the $367mm in total dollars raised by this group equals$670mm, and only 2 of these 17 companies’ IPOs (EMC $80mm; and Oracle $70mm) exceed $55mm in 2009 dollars. GDP growth and job creation will be still-born and be forced in to a merger? jobs today.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Back in 2009 and 2010, I experienced a few Dell business execution issues. I wanted to learn about the “secret sauce” of Dell’s merger and acquisition process which seemed to be superior based on what I had observed from my limited vantage point. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Back in 2009 and 2010, I experienced a few Dell business execution issues. I wanted to learn about the “secret sauce” of Dell’s merger and acquisition process which seemed to be superior based on what I had observed from my limited vantage point. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion. Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.” When Garret Camp and Travis Kalanick founded Uber in 2009, they hatched the industry now known as ride-sharing. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017).

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

August practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, commercial transactions, general corporate law and business bankruptcy. He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. Interested?

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 24, 2011

Remember that Playfish was acquired by EA in 2009 for $300M, which was reported to be 4x revenues.). In the US, both Facebook and Groupon made headlines with their paper valuations at $50bn and $6bn, implying multiples of 25x and 12x , respectively.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

While my ownership stake in the company has been diluted through these financings (and the merger with uControl), my carried interest (paper value of my equity) has been going up with each increase in valuation. ► 2009. (7). So what does this all mean. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. ► July.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Ten years ago, in October 2009, Salesforce was a dominant force among the 21 public SaaS companies, with a valuation that represented one third of their combined $22 billion market capitalisation. 2009, CapitalQ, Yahoo! Full presentation available here. Source: The Angel VC Blog, BVP SaaS benchmarking Oct. billion collectively.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

If the gestalt of the merger is expected to be significantly greater than the sum of the company values and cash, then the difference may be used as founders’ shares and split appropriately. 2009 2010 2011. link] Harrison Rose. Your answer is quite clear, with an exception. 2 questions, how you’ve calculated percentage?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Try these numbers on for size: Mergers and acquisitions activity in the past 24 months has more than halved - with only 7,300 deals closed in 2009, representing approximately $803 billion in deal value. Compare this to the more than 13,000 deals representing $1.38 trillion in value that got done in 2007 - the last "normal" year.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. link] Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Sept 22, 2009 | Sazbean [.] How To Get There. Seems like a hell of a lot of advantage to have, on top of a great founding team, when heading into a startup.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

rise in 2009, while investment in fixed assets is estimated to grow 6.2% drop in 2009. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49 billion, higher than the 17 deals made in 2009 for $1.5

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