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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 12, 2022
Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 3, 2009
When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. But even he would feel conflicted when I had to cut the engineering team because he valued our product more than his investment. Imagine your investor has to call the CEO of a $20 billion company for approval for your merger or sale.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.
Scott Edward Walker
DECEMBER 13, 2018
An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). The appeal from the acquirer’s perspective is that – in one fell swoop – it acquires a team of engineers. The appeal from the startup’s perspective is a “soft landing.”. What Legal Documents are Utilized?
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.
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