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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)

Software By Rob

This is final installment of a 3-part series covering my acquisition of HitTail. Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. Photo by psiaki.

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Suffice to say you probably noticed this site was down for a few days last week (the RSS feed was down even longer). Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: July 23rd – August 5th

Scott Edward Walker

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Quora: Fellow seed investors, do you ask for founder reps on IP and cap table on your deals? Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a few blog-related tweets.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. infoChachkie. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Thanks for visiting! It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic. Lists | RSS | Bookmarklet | Guidelines | FAQ | News News | Feature Requests | Y Combinator | Apply | Library.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Acquisition / Lifetime Value, etc. I can’t offer any amazing technology or IP, but I can solve a few problems by just doing it “right”, and not the way it’s being forced on people right now. customer acquisition, like Launchrock, you called that something, what was that again? Subscribe via RSS.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? at 3:35 pm @Seb G You point reminds me of something a friend had said when he was talking about his brother who is an attorney that specializes in tech ip. I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth.