Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Commitment, tenacity, and agility are key in this stage. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Because of their high visibility and huge portfolios, this new class of investors can match the right talent to the right startup quickly and efficiently with introductions and mergers. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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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

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

To get to this Transition stage, the company needed passionate visionaries who can articulate a compelling vision, agile enough to learn and discover in real time, resilient enough to deal with countless failures, and responsive enough to capitalize on what they learned in order to secure early customers. Planning is another key distinction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Because of their high visibility and huge portfolios, this new class of investors can match the right talent to the right startup quickly and efficiently with introductions and mergers. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development. You have to deliver.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Prior to that, he worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan and General Electric specializing in deliberative trading, private equity investment, and post merger integration.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

And that’s why I’m so excited that Reinvent Technology Partners (RTP) , the SPAC I co-founded with Mark Pincus and Michael Thompson, has proposed a merger with Joby. That’s why I will also become a Joby board member upon completion of the proposed merger with RTP. In addition, you can read more information about the merger here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. Instead, he realized that most VC-backed startups would exit through a merger or acquisition- at a sale price of $20 to $100 million.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0 Source: NVCA.). Free At Last.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

And so Brand New Name draws on the ideas of the GV sprint and agile project management. I think within mergers, that sometimes makes sense, but those are probably larger entities with a larger communication strategy. You’ve seen people do that, where they blend the logos or something like that.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

The scope of the change can be as small as a move to a new office or as significant as an acquisition or a merger. The biggest advantage that a smaller-scale business will enjoy as a result is the increased agility, and in today’s marketplace, supply chain agility trumps product innovation over the long-term.

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