YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

Obviously you need to clearly understand your situation and your cost benefit analysis so that you can go into the deal with a solid understanding of what is a huge success for yourself. Being wholly owned has the same effect, but it does obviously require a merger or an acquisition to occur. Understand your deal limitations.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

You’ve launched your new restaurant and you’re starting to see customers, but running a restaurant is serious business, especially because your financial livelihood is most likely tied up in startup costs. . The high cost of marketing, salaries, appliances, ambiance, and so on will dry up incoming revenue instantly.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. With that information in hand, Engineering estimates delivery dates and development costs. These markets live entirely in decreasing returns economics.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Not enough people understand the emotional cost of being a start-up founder. Reply mikev , on June 15, 2009 at 12:03 pm Said: What happened to Convergent Technologies work ethic and business ethics after the merger with Unisis? People will look at you crazy (especially if you left a high paying job to start a company).

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