Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. Mergers and acquisitions pace improving. We often forget that one person’s loss is a gain for others. Venture capitalists invested $4.8

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Merger Venture Capital United States Acquisition 201

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. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2018

That same Italian restaurant would benefit from a merger with an olive oil business. In the world of the mega-rich, we see both kinds of business acquisition. Mark Zuckerberg has gone from owner of Facebook to the owner several of the other biggest social networks in the world. Then, there’s Richard Branson.

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Merger Social Network Acquisition Networking 68

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel.

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

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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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Here’s an early example: Tuenti launched in Spain as the Spanish social network when Facebook was only just allowing 13-year-old school kids on in the USA. Mergers and acquisitions anyone? Here’s one way of finding out about the users of your competitors: Choose a social networking platform (we’ll use G+ here).

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Spain North America Social Network Africa 168

Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

None of the other 29 social media folks invited to participate in DellCAP blogged for a prominent media outlet like Fast Company. Dell, like many big companies today, trolls the Internet to find out what’s being said about them so they can reach out and help as well as implement corrective action.

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