The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With over three decades of experience in private equity investments, acquisitions and mergers, Mark Hauser has developed a keen ability to recognize trends and do his due diligence. In tandem with these efforts toward organic growth, they will also explore opportunities for inorganic growth through acquisitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Partial acquisition.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the current economic landscape, it’s common for startups and businesses to seek a buyout or acquisition — in fact, it’s frequently the goal from the start. Having audited financial statements will provide your buyer with a trustworthy source of your financials and operations. by Jeff Stark, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Connect operations today with long-term goals. Overtly connect every operational problem to your strategy, rather than putting strategy on a different plane and making it only an annual event. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Co-founders, Laura Maly and Michael Anderson, struck a deal with Galvez that led to the acquisition of Merger Labs , effective January 1, 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

500k had come through the last acquisition. I lived through the era of companies doing premature mergers. That’s why immature teams spend so much time on mergers. A merger is not the panacea. There is no such thing a “merger of equals&#. He had bought two companies and was eyeing a third.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Until mid-2013, the USPTO still operated on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent.

Software Review 250

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

Use acquisitions to complement organic growth. Smart companies use acquisitions to enhance momentum and accelerate revenue growth. Smart companies use acquisitions to enhance momentum and accelerate revenue growth. Smart companies always have a few “experiments” in process. In many cases, the return is not worth the cost.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

We will cover them in more depth below: Acquisition. Acquisition: The acquisition is often known as a “merger and acquisition.” An acquisition or merger does not have to happen on a big scale. This list should give you an idea of common types of exit strategies. Management buyout.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. If you’re not focused on your customers, they will leave as soon as they find a viable alternative, and their departure is only a matter of time.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Reasons for funding. ? Scale up your operations. One of the most prominent reasons for funding is to scale up your operations, for expansion and achieve economies of scale. Now you may want to scale up your operations or expand your presence. The third reason is to fund your short term operational expenses or working capital.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

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 There are now 2.8B

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Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Until mid-2013, the USPTO still operated on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent.

Software Review 173

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

Rather than feeling the effects of the highs and lows of the local market, the businesses can use the profitable operations from the new markets to offset a negative performance in the current market. This can bring down operational or production costs permitting the companies to improve their profit margins. Take a unique opportunity.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

For a young entrepreneur, the mergers and acquisitions process can be exciting and potentially lucrative but it can also be the source of considerable stress. He or she should understand your business, the industry in which it operates, and have a good grasp of your company’s culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

Officially, the investment banks mission is to raise money for companies by issuing and selling securities in the capital markets, and providing advice on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

An internal business expansion is often incompatible with established operations, thus mergers and acquisitions are the most common scaling strategies. People embedded in an existing business are often too narrowly focused, comfortable, and risk averse to be new entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Officially, the investment banks mission is to raise money for companies by issuing and selling securities in the capital markets, and providing advice on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

The acquisition will help Sheela Foam enter the fast-growing branded furniture market and expand its presence in the furniture industry. Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. The deal, proposed at $36.5 million, has valued Furlenco at about $104.3

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

This required high operational costs like round the clock staff, abundant paper supplies and couriers. Some of these benefits include the following: Reduced cost of operations. These cloud based software programs are connected and operated on extranet. Mergers and Acquisitions. VDRs protect stored data.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Another vein of thought is that boards should primarily be involved in strategic planning when there is a major event such as a change in the CEO, a major investment opportunity, a looming acquisition, a decline in sales, or an unsolicited takeover bid. Takeovers, mergers, and acquisitions are sometimes an integral part of corporate strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2021

Airlines, for example, have difficulty scaling up through mergers and acquisitions (M&As), but they can spin off their maintenance businesses and let the spin-off do the M&A in its own field. Service operations such as call centers can grow far beyond their parent companies, especially if their services are more generic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. Most entrepreneurs work long and hard to get a handshake agreement from an investor, and then tend to relax and wait for the check to clear.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

A viable business opportunity is to present expert business services designed to help companies operate and implement first cybersecurity procedures and measures. Currently, there’s the universal dependence on specialized software and computers to keep companies operating, and more offices are transiting into paperless working spaces.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Of course, these are important ingredients to growth, but the – perhaps unconventional – truth is that this kind of growth can be riskier and less compelling to investors than growth through acquisition. Set clear financial objectives for an acquisition and create benchmarks to gauge attractiveness of potential target companies.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Now nearly a “double unicorn,” the company plans to use the new investment to further grow its business operations and expand its current suite of mobile applications. To begin, we are planning between three to five acquisitions, each with a budget of tens of millions of dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Building a business requires funding – for inventory, marketing, and operations. Scaling is the holy grail of every new venture – from local to global, from online to brick-and-mortar to partners to mergers and acquisitions, from a private company to a public company, from cash-flow-positive to the next unicorn.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is not uncommon for startup directors to be more deeply involved in the operations of the business when the company is entering a new market, hiring critical team members or raising capital. This may mean straddling the line between governance and management when necessary.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in. Integrating an acquisition is difficult in the best of circumstances and can often fail to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Finally, a popular method is an acquisition or merger, where businesses integrate with another company to increase market share and gain access to new customers or resources. Technology offers many benefits that can help streamline your operations, boost productivity, and enhance your bottom line.

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 21, 2016

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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.) So what’s left?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

17:07] I’m seeing more and more agencies talk about growth through acquisition – is that a good way to grow? And so that's gonna be somebody that has that technical expertise in that creative work that they may do pretty close is gonna be more operational. Is that fraught with lots of challenges? [19:44] Blumer CPAs.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Although it has been difficult for various multinational telecom companies to do acquisition in Iraq, this industry has been enormously growing. The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. The company was formed as a result of a merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. And GTE Corp.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2018

In addition, if your business operations are located overseas, repatriation provisions under the new tax law may make a switch to C-Corp status tax advantageous. The operative word here, though, is qualified. New Deductions for Qualified Business Income.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Also, mergers, acquisitions, and alliances with other companies almost always drive the need to modify your organizational entity for legal or operational purposes. All these organizational and operational considerations are one of the main reasons that an innovative solution alone does not assure a successful business.

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