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What Is Your 2019 Won’t Do List?

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Examples would be “an acquisition” or “a financing” or “an IPO.” ” Let’s take “acquisition” as an example. Maybe you’ve made some acquisitions in the past. I like to start with things that often are optional, but consume a lot of time and energy.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

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Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO. The story starts in 2007 with the founding of EFCO , which Ryan and I spearheaded and had a huge punch line in 2013 when Rally Made a Gift of $1.3 Ryan continues to head up EFCO and is co-founder of Pledge 1%, which is the effort to take EFCO international.

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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

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They range from “the sky is falling” to “the IPO market window is closing” to “there will be more stupid television shows about Silicon Valley” (I prefer Game of Thrones and 24, thank you very much.). Suddenly the IPO market window closed. ” I remember a moment in time in 1997.

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BigDoor Acquires OneTrueFan

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Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. When there is a great fit, I love seeing our portfolio companies make acquisitions. Todd and Eric have been friends of mine for a long time.

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RIP Len Fassler

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He told me that Cable & Wireless wasn’t moving forward with the acquisition of Interliant – the deal was all but done. I remember signing document after document with him at Interliant and remember sitting at the Interliant office in Purchase after the IPO roadshow, waiting for the SEC to clear our filing so we could price.

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Unicorpse

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If private capital is no longer available in the future, these companies will seek a public offering or acquisition.