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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. Looking to the rest of the world can often give you an insight into what the next big thing will be, particularly if you are in a region other than the US or Europe. Be the First to Market.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. In his case, he built commercial buildings in Toronto, Canada.

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5 Lessons To Learn From Germany’s Thriving Startup Scene

YoungUpstarts

And unlike America that’s currently on the move to get rid of imported talent from certain countries, Germany embraces the concept of importing talent. Being one of Europe’s powerhouses when it comes to manufacturing , Germany has realised that the future rests with innovation. Accepting new technology.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

The Bingcubator is separated from the rest of the Microsoft campus and will have separate keycard access, so startups won’t be completely assimilated into the Borg. It was fiercely independent, and was, until its HP acquisition, one of the few PC makers still assembling computers in North America. Skip to secondary content.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

He only touches on them briefly in this article, but rest assured I will ask him to break down the details of each success he has had so we can learn from his case studies in future articles. Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice.

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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. That was a very interesting time for me, I was in a unique position of getting a chance to witness a merger (that I still believe was a good idea) go horribly wrong. Whether it was the execution of the merger or something else, the fact is that it went awry.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

… We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. ” While this post is about the Demand Pull companies, we should all be focused on the Supply Push companies if we want to move the needle on job creation, risk taking, and new venture formation in America.