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5 Tips For Growing Your Start-up Into An Attractive Acquisition Target

YoungUpstarts

For many start-up companies, the dream is to one day become the other half in a merger or acquisition with a larger, more developed organisation. Start-up company ‘Blu Cigs’ was acquired by Lorrilard, one of the oldest continually operating tobacco organisations in America, for the impressive figure of $135 million for the merger.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape. He also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Veronis, Suhler & Company and Cowles Media Company and held various operations positions at The Black Book.

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Diversity of Thought: Carlos Mallen on building diverse teams post mergers and acquisitions

Transformify

Our guest today is Carlos Mallen, Senior Vice President, Human Resources for the Americas and Europe, Exela. Prior to the formation of Exela, he was the SVP, Human Resources for Americas and Europe at SourceHOV. Prior to that, it was a group of smaller companies put together through mergers and acquisitions.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. When the companies merged, those operations also merged. With this strategic position, and their prescient understanding of where the industry was going, it is hard to argue with the concept of the merger.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. These were the very same products that we are used to purchasing in malls and department stores here in the United States of America. In America, the cost of doing business is very high.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

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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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.