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7 Keys To Strategic Partnerships That Profit Everyone

Startup Professionals Musings

The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Willing to learn from each other.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

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7 Ways Getting In Bed With The Enemy Can Be Win-Win

Startup Professionals Musings

The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Willing to learn from each other.

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3 Ways Acquisition Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Starting Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein. Adopting a “getting on base” strategy engineers greater success in entrepreneurship — a field with high rates of failure. Many entrepreneurs don’t consider acquisition entrepreneurship because it doesn’t seem as exciting as building something brand-new.

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Diversity of Thought: Carlos Mallen on building diverse teams post mergers and acquisitions

Transformify

Carlos, a lot has been said about diversity and inclusion but there is little to no guidance of building diverse teams post-mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that, it was a group of smaller companies put together through mergers and acquisitions. For sure, you had cases when post-merger integration wasn’t easy.

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7 Ways Due Diligence Helps Before Final Commitment

Startup Professionals Musings

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. This element is usually called technical due diligence and typically consists of a day with your engineering and marketing team led by internal team leaders.

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What Happens When Leaders Forget The Culture That Made Their Company Great?

YoungUpstarts

According to news reports , the origins of the company’s woes can be traced all the way back to 1997 when Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, a merger that immediately led to a clash of cultures. At Boeing, engineers were king. Mergers and acquisitions are always fraught with danger both financially and culturally.

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