Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Streaming media. Social media. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. It was fiercely independent, and was, until its HP acquisition, one of the few PC makers still assembling computers in North America. Enterprise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. Mark Zuckerberg was not the first to build a social media platform, so he had to find investors who believed in him. You have to put together a convincing story of a win-win opportunity for both sides.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. In the case of an acquisition, the shares are tendered for cash and/or stock in the acquiring company.).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

As technology takes on a bigger role in businesses of all types, tech acquisitions become both short- and long-term investments. That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

I am looking forward to the possibility of selling several proposals I have developed that could generate tremendous advertising revenues for newspapers, broadcasting companies, magazines, internet media companies and the internet divisions of multimedia companies.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Internet giant Yahoo is acquiring Israeli display ad optimization technology developer start-up Dapper for $55 million. iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) Dell uses Radian6 which is now owned by Salesforce.com to monitor what’s being said about them in the social media space. Not at all.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

For scaling a company, a body of work not quite so large has found a home on the Internet, and now we have a class to cover the subject?—? they don’t do the social media marketing campaigns themselves, they hire consultants and teams to do this stuff for them. Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling Blitzscaling ?—?taught

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) Dell uses Radian6 which is now owned by Salesforce.com to monitor what’s being said about them in the social media space. Not at all.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? 1 party = low price.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

She first became involved in the Internet when she downloaded Mosaic. After understanding the Internet, she became program manager at Microsoft. At a16z, we also have a high affinity for Mosaic and its bald headed co-inventor. Even more amazingly, she’s done it across a broad variety of categories from 3D printing to payments.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

She first became involved in the Internet when she downloaded Mosaic. After understanding the Internet, she became program manager at Microsoft. At a16z, we also have a high affinity for Mosaic and its bald headed co-inventor. Even more amazingly, she’s done it across a broad variety of categories from 3D printing to payments.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Mergers and acquisitions anyone? Patent laws are not equally enforced around the world and it’s pretty hard to keep your secret sauce secret on the internet. Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' This proves that, if nothing else, you can use language as your niche. How wrong was this? I’m not sure.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1

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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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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Here’s Audrey’s excellent summary: In it, Sacca observes that 10 years ago, it cost more than a million dollars for a tech business to launch, with steep hardware, software, office and internet costs, not to mention the “lavish parties so print media would write about their pipe dreams.&#.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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