Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Here is an outline of some key force multipliers that I have seen used effectively in the ongoing battle for business survival and success: Establish a presence on multiple social media channels. Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

This chart (which I saw on Broadstuff and was originally published in the Harvard Business Review ) is from audited company accounts following mergers and acquisitions: …we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

For example, if you have ever watched the Shark Tank show on TV, they always ask about the cost of customer acquisition. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO. You need to have quantifiable objectives, with measurements, to keep you on the path to success.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one-stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.”. 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Scaling is done first by customer alliances through social media, and later by distributed joint ventures and coopetition. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Implement a plan of regular strategic acquisitions. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

For most of those that manage to grow big, acquisition of other companies plays a major role in their success. While many businesses are aware of the importance of importance of acquisitions as a growth strategy few get it right when making acquisitions. In fact statistics show that only a quarter of acquisitions succeed.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) Dell uses Radian6 which is now owned by Salesforce.com to monitor what’s being said about them in the social media space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. Mark Zuckerberg was not the first to build a social media platform, so he had to find investors who believed in him. You have to put together a convincing story of a win-win opportunity for both sides.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) Dell uses Radian6 which is now owned by Salesforce.com to monitor what’s being said about them in the social media space.

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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? I think it used to be the social media would odd. So it is some you're always gonna have to take acquisitions are pretty tough, you know? Is that fraught with lots of challenges? [19:44] Blumer CPAs.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Sometimes instead of being productive, we choose to simply scroll down social media. As a matter of fact, local networking events are a great opportunity to establish new business contacts,” says Achim Neumann, President of A Neumann & Associates, a leading mergers & acquisitions firm on the East Coast.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Editor’s picks.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

1 SEO and Social Media Campaigns. If your start-up is not making the most out of its website and social media accounts, then this should be the first place that you look to expand your efforts. Social media campaigns can be incredibly effective means of boosting sales and increasing reach to targeted markets.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2012

These blogs touch on a wide range of business issues, from mergers and acquisitions to executive training. Fascinated by mergers and acquisitions, deal-making, and negotiations? Learn more about the legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions from a collective of business law professors. Yoko Ishikura.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

they don’t do the social media marketing campaigns themselves, they hire consultants and teams to do this stuff for them. Your specialist VP of Marketing may have no idea how to operate without a scaled team?—?they What those of us in slow-growth Tortoise models love is that we get to invest in our people.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Insert Media Brokers. Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Beware—detailing plans to engage in mergers or acquisitions with unspecified companies disqualifies your business from offering or selling crowdfunding securities. Accordingly, your business may continue to use social media to build relationships and circulate information. You just need to specify one.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ question in venture capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Mergers and acquisitions anyone? Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' Spain has a population of (give or take) 50 million – more than enough people for the founders to enjoy a good income. This proves that, if nothing else, you can use language as your niche. and their inability to do everything.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

CB Insights regularly produces data-driven reports and analysis on venture capital, private equity, angel investment, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs and emerging high-growth industries. Mattermarks goal is to track growth signals from all private tech, media and telecom companies. 6) CB Insights. 7) Mattermark.

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David Teten

MAY 12, 2011

12/10: Mergers & Acquisitions , Where are the Deals? 6/10: Harvard Business Review , Time for Investors to Get Social. . - 1/3/11: Global Corporate Venturing , Chasing the rabbit: deal origination best practice. - 12/6/10: Financial News/Private Equity News , Four Ways Buyout Funds Can Increase Dealflow. -

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And I’m not a technical guy but I certainly — I am very much a strong advocate of consumer privacy and I think the recent congressional decision was just appalling.

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

Cutting talent acquisition costs, the time to fill a role and increasing the retention rate have a positive effect on both the quality of products or services and profit margins. Acquisitions, mergers, and the opening of new offices are good opportunities for capitalizing and moving forward toward international expansion.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Buffett, when thinking of low-cost production moats, uses GEICO (another Berkshire Hathaway acquisition) as an example. The primary goal is user acquisition. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions. If you can make it for less, you can sell it for less. Image source ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. Eric Ries : Well, you knew. You knew actually. Look, first of all, in these conversations, the number of times that the story begins on Twitter is remarkable.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

would love your thoughts on our startup (well its well started) imorial.com [link] Be a social media star: a menu board of 5 competences « flowing motion [.] Seems like a hell of a lot of advantage to have, on top of a great founding team, when heading into a startup. link] benjamin goldhammer awesoem article.

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