Feld Thoughts
APRIL 14, 2010
This is the second acquisition Rally has made – the other was 6th Sense Analytics which they acquired at the beginning of 2009. But I love targeted acquisitions that build out specific capabilities on an established company’s roadmap or add key people to the team. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile agilezen kanban rally.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 14, 2018
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. Then, I like to roll into metrics that create a floor on how the business will operate.
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Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 26, 2021
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Feld Thoughts
MARCH 20, 2019
In these conversations, the question of how I shifted from “operator” to “investor” inevitably comes up. I straddled the operator / investor world until 2001 when the Internet bubble burst and my work world exploded into tiny pieces that collected into a huge mountain of s**t that I had to work through.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Engineering growth rate – Unless you are making an acquisition and running it separately or sub-dividing engineering in some novel way, you should strive not to more than double a monolithic engineering organization in a 12-month period. Both articles are worth a detailed read – they are each short, but full of goodness.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 25, 2015
And need money to fund their operations. Sure, every now and then something magical happens (very high price point, very low cost of customer acquisition, zero churn), but that’s a serious edge case. You want to do an acquisition, but the seller wants some cash. But I’m not talking about bootstrapped companies.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 21, 2014
No one was interested in Internet stocks, let alone one that was being tortured by the SEC for accounting disclosure on a bunch of acquisitions of tiny companies. Focus on the reality – your reality – and do your best operating in the context in which you can’t control. Suddenly the IPO market window closed.
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