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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

billion merger with IronSource , an Israeli scale-up specialising in mobile gaming monetisation might also position them as a big player in crypto gaming – offering developers the ability to integrate a simplified crypto wallet into their games in the near future. Unity’s recent $4.4 Also, their $1.6

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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. Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies. focusing your due diligence on the future to get the best sense of the business’ potential.

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The Importance of Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

Scott Edward Walker

Indeed, this lesson stuck with me – and it applies regardless of the size of the acquisition. SONY’S ACQUISITION OF CBS RECORDS. The first significant deal to which I was assigned as a junior corporate associate was representing Sony in connection with its acquisition of CBS Records for $2 billion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAmVCkSmhA.

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3 Ways to Grow Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

If you have managed to pull off success with something that 90% of other start-ups fail at, namely make it through the start-up phase, then you deserve some kudos. If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you.

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LawPivot: Crowdsourced, Confidential Legal Advice for Startups

ReadWriteStart

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. You can ask questions about a variety of legal topics that concern your startup: contracts, stock issues, employment, licensing, patents, trademarks, real estate, just to name a few.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? We discussed: 1. The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March.

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology. billion acquisition of app store 91 Wireless is a classic example.

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