Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

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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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. The first secret is to know your audience before you pitch. Don’t try to overwhelm any audience with a large amount of data. In the end, tie back to how it all began, why your audience should care.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

You may have just been acquired, your business might be trying to come out of a major crisis or you could need to rebrand because your core audience no longer identifies with your business. HP Merger With Compaq. But rebranding is often necessary because it is done under desperate circumstances. Tylenol Crisis. .

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2019

Exposure to the Right Target Audience. Online components make businesses grow at an astonishing rate because of the merger between people’s work and social lives. If you’re still wondering what is being online? More so, when you state your location, people within that vicinity can find you and patronize your services.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 7, 2020

You’ll lose a third of your audience in thirty seconds, so these clips need to be short. It may be a new product release, a hiring event , or major merger. You’ll get the audience to tune in for the big announcement or at least follow you on social media so they’re notified when it is available.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s when it starts to be profitable and become more familiar to the audience. Total rebrands typically happen in the event of mergers or even new leaders. Aged identity New leadership Expanding the audience base Business acquisition Adapting to values and trends. Most small businesses stabilize in two to three years.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2017

This is something to bear in mind when thinking about how you might engage with this audience. The support system of coworking makes start-ups less likely to fail and make matters such as mergers much easier. An international attitude. Through the years, Germany and the UK have evolved to be world leaders leading the way in Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

An integral part of assessing your startup’s potential is just how you plan on securing your customers – which can be done by first securing a good audience, and then converting them into good leads. This doesn’t mean the process is impossible, however. This is especially useful if you’ve just started out.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

Corporate leadership will soon face new challenges with adhering to social distancing policies and the potential for continuing lockdowns, as well as responding to an anxious audience of both employees and customers.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

“Inevitably when people look back at this period, they will say this is the golden age for private equity because money is being made very readily,” Carlyle’s cofounder David Rubenstein told an audience at the beginning of 2006. It was indeed private equity’s moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. At its most basic form, venture capital is a source of funding for companies that are too risky to be ideal candidates for other forms of funding, like a bank loan.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2015

At its core, customer relationships start with recognizing the values of your audience. These decisions form the basis for the values and assumptions that will become the organization’s culture and influence every outcome from daily interactions to annual financial reports. Be insanely customer-centric. A customer is a customer for life.

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David Teten

MAY 12, 2011

We also have presented on our research to dozens of conferences, funds, and investment banks globally, gaining additional insight from audience feedback. 12/10: Mergers & Acquisitions , Where are the Deals? My coauthor Chris Farmer of General Catalyst provided critical insight, particularly on the venture capital industry.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

9- Using the initials of the founder(s) Photo Credit: Daniel Mikus Our asphalt company MR Roads launched following a merger between two businesses – Platinum Tippers and Pelly-Can Asphalt. If the intent was to attract a wide audience, I'd love a creative business name, e.g. Yahoo!, Thanks to Kristina Duke, Decluttering Diva ! #9-

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

People scoop company layoffs, mergers, key people leaving a company or being fired and the like. The pressure to announce funding first was great and often if your competitor scooped you on a funding announcement you wouldn’t run it. But that’s not the world we live in today. They seldom scoop fundings.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The event is private, but since I was impressed by Michael’s latest book, Play Nice But Win, I want to share some of my thoughts about it with a wider audience. I’ll be speaking with Michael Dell at a Village Global event later this week. SMALL BUT THOUGHTFUL GESTURES CAN HAVE A BIG IMPACT.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

In an interview to Techcrunch , Jon Goldman explained the synergies that come out of the merger: “This is an exotic venture strategy,” he admits, “Qlipso is an early-stage R&D company transforming into an business with scale and audience.” Qlipso gains an instant audience, a better-known brand, and relationships with advertisers.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I believe that online advertising is going through an important transition with the rise of real-time bidding platforms and advertisers increasing ability to buy audience vs sites. We’ve all seen the global statistics – August was an unusually strong month for mergers and acquisitions. Do you see a window developing?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Dapper, which was founded in 2006, developed a technology platform that enables advertisers and agencies to create interactive display ads which reach the relevant audience. Ernst & Young (E&Y), one of the “Big Four&# global auditors, forecasts Israel will have 24 mergers and acquisitions in 2010, worth about $1.75

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” A cautious person wouldn’t stand on stage and tell a large audience she is going to change the world while secretly wondering when the f**k her team is going to work out the bugs in the product so you can actually launch. Are tacking. There are issues around performance of key staff members.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Mergers and acquisitions anyone? Pinterest has an audience of 80 percent women, and 20 percent of all American women are on it. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English. So if you or anybody in your audience has ideas on how to push that, I think that's definitely something I want to explore. T omas Pueyo : Yeah. and everybody's heard of it.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

With these obstacles, it is sometimes smarter to target the US market first, even though you may reach a smaller audience. Companies like that tend to be great M&A (merger and acquisition) targets, as you cannot repeat it by throwing money or a team as it’ll take time. CooTek is Chinese but targeted Western consumers first.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2017

Originally an innovative merger of two ice cream parlors, Baskin Robbins changed the ice cream business by offering 31 unique flavors. Understand your audience. Understanding the age, location, personality, and even habits of your audience can give you (and your designer) important guidelines to use when designing the logo.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

Last I heard, Tim Ferriss likes taking 5-10%[2], but he has a brand which allows him to heavily promote your product without annoying his [large and wealthy] audience. I’ve heard of similar “advisory” requests from other big celebrities, ranging from a 50-90% stake, which is really more like a merger.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 16, 2016

4 – Thoughtful Merger. It is a merger I made up, and could therefore own and brand with my tagline *Culinary Business Excellence*. We brainstormed the target audience, the phrases that came to mind in relation to the product, the audience and the experience. Photo Credit: Terry Frishman.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The panel discussed the virtues and vices that startups face when deciding to go public or stay private, or, as one audience member pointed out: to get bought out. Larry: After attending a recent VC congress in Israel, he found out that merger exits are not as profitable as IPOs in terms of building VC returns.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Audience Development. Digital audience developers and executives discuss their favorites. 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. Circulation/Audience Development.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

Great to be with you again and great to be with your audience again. David thanks for joining me. How’s that? David: That’s pretty good. Thanks John. John: So I guess I’ll start off with because you write so much about local digital marketing, local search stuff.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

All the while, Lijit has been rapidly growing the list of publishers they work with by providing not only an advertising channel, but search, analytics and insight tools to help Lijit publishers better understand and engage with their audience. The fit is a natural one.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

All the while, Lijit has been rapidly growing the list of publishers they work with by providing not only an advertising channel, but search, analytics and insight tools to help Lijit publishers better understand and engage with their audience. The fit is a natural one.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Excuse my French, it was a clusterfuck," Elevation Partners Roger McNamee told the audience as they nibbled their kale salads. "It’s Things have really picked up in terms of mergers and acquisitions. It’s like you had a chance to win the Super Bowl and you didn’t show up for the game.".

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 22, 2009

Have you been approached by a prospective buyer or merger partner? And a new, different, maybe better, maybe worse, corporate culture will be introduced, and you'll be center stage in front of a new and highly judgmental audience. Why consider selling? You will have less control over the company direction and the allocation of capital.

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 22, 2009

Have you been approached by a prospective buyer or merger partner? And a new, different, maybe better, maybe worse, corporate culture will be introduced and you'll be center stage in front of a new and highly judgmental audience. Why consider selling? Your control over company direction and how capital is allocated will be reduced.

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