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M&A or IPO?

Reid Hoffman

The fundamental choice that venture-backed entrepreneurs face is simple: M&A or IPO? Companies make acquisitions based on strategic goal that are aligned with their inner workings. If you win that market, you’re going to be valuable as an acquisition. You’re also going to be valuable and attractive as an IPO candidate.

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Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy

Up and Running

We will cover them in more depth below: Acquisition. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Acquisition: The acquisition is often known as a “merger and acquisition.” An acquisition or merger does not have to happen on a big scale. In fact, this is exactly what happened at Palo Alto Software.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Virtual Data Room Cybersecurity is the Latest Business Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

Currently, there’s the universal dependence on specialized software and computers to keep companies operating, and more offices are transiting into paperless working spaces. Securing financial transactions requires the best virtual data room software to replace the traditional physical data rooms. The importance of a data room.

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Quickly Unpacking SAP’s $8B Acquisition Of Qualtrics

Haystack

Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO. In the wake of what is now considered the second-highest enterprise SaaS acquisition in history, below are some quick takeaways that are on my mind: 1/ The Efficiency Of Silicon Slopes – By now it should be no surprise that Utah’s tech ecosystem is on fire.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. Fortnite generated $5.8 Unity’s recent $4.4 Also, their $1.6

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

On top of all this it was considered very bad form not to have at least four additional consecutive quarters of profits after an IPO.) The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did.