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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

More often than not the results of these acquisitions are disappointing. The goal is to get a corporate investment or an outright acquisition of the startup. VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup.

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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).

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

billion acquisition of Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s VFX company, gives Unity capabilities in creating hyper realistic virtual environments using RT3D (real-time 3D) technology. Microsoft has recently spent $70 billion in cash to acquire Activision Blizzard, the most expensive gaming acquisition of all time. Also, their $1.6

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Virtual Data Room Cybersecurity is the Latest Business Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. IPOs are difficult company transactions as it requires companies to go public. VDR provides the necessary channel through which such companies can survive and launch careful IPO document management and retention. IP Management.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Your big decisions will be when and how to : raise capital. pivot the business. scale – this may include the need to go offshore.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market.