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Preparing For An Acquisition

YoungUpstarts

In the current economic landscape, it’s common for startups and businesses to seek a buyout or acquisition — in fact, it’s frequently the goal from the start. Whether your company is generating profits or operating at a loss, taxes are a significant risk area in any acquisition. by Jeff Stark, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo.

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The Importance of Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

Scott Edward Walker

I’ve been handling a number of M&A transactions over the past few months from the buy-side, and one mistake I’m repeatedly seeing is the failure of the acquirer to perform an adequate due-diligence investigation of the target. Indeed, this lesson stuck with me – and it applies regardless of the size of the acquisition.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

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). What is a VC To Do?

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Take part in startup investment due diligence. If you are asked to be on a startup board, be sure to do due diligence on the venture and the team. This is a good place to start.

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Virtual Data Room Cybersecurity is the Latest Business Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

M&A due diligence is the primary application of the VDR. During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. Fundraising mandates involve lots of document and data sharing during due diligence investigation. IP Management. Fundraising.

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Virtual Data Rooms are not Just for Big Companies

The Startup Magazine

It is defined as an online repository of information for storing and distributing shared documents, and can be used during business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and private equity and venture capital funding. It should also protect your IP address and your shared documents.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

Since there weren’t corporate resource for further evaluation, (one of our programs’ constraints was not to create new permanent infrastructures for implementation,) we had no choice but to assign the idea to a business unit and ask them to perform due diligence the best they could. (By