Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. Any unusual financial risks, including contingencies, large contracts, recent bankruptcies or credit denials on the part of any owners must be disclosed.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Acquisition: The acquisition is often known as a “merger and acquisition.” An acquisition or merger does not have to happen on a big scale. Buying and Selling a Business acquisition exit strategy family business Family Succession IPO merger' We will cover them in more depth below: Acquisition. Management buyout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2019

If you are just plain tired of working so hard, or your startup is not getting the traction you expected, should you shut down cleanly, or just file for bankruptcy and walk away? For those who think that bankruptcy is the easy way out, think again. Bankruptcy should always be the absolutely last resort.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2018

And, blink three times if you realize that Netscape is now owned by Oath, which is a subsidiary of Verizon, which is headquartered in New York, and is the merger of Bell Atlantic (Philadelphia), NYNEX (New York), and GTE (which, awesomely, bought BBN, created GTE Internetworking, spun it off as Genuity after the Bell Atlantic merger, which was then (..)

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

In this interview, hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse. Just this week they announced a merger with a Greek shell company as a fast track to going public. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

August practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, commercial transactions, general corporate law and business bankruptcy. He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Q lipso, an Israeli startup funded by JVP (see previous VC Cafe post ), has announced the acquisition of the assets of Veoh , a user generated video site, on the virge of its declaration of bankruptcy. According to the Wall Street Journal , the company was about to file for chapter 11 on March 19th at 5pm.

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