mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Just this week they announced a merger with a Greek shell company as a fast track to going public. These cities’ tech communities are urged on developing resilient and original technologies and organize themselves around creative spaces, ingenious communities and inventive collaborative practices. and often in non-traditional ways.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

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.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

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. When members see connections, they often partner with one another, backstopping and expanding each other’s capabilities and skills or forming entirely new ventures.

Term Sheet 40

Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Vesting San Diego 40

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a 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? The Adventure of a Lifetime.

Entrepreneur 276

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 276

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

As a New Yorker, I saw this change happen in real time, first as our government avoided taking (previously unfathomable) necessary shutdown measures and later as it embraced them wholeheartedly, albeit still too late to prevent New York from becoming one of the hardest hit places in the world.

Leadership 223

Leadership Public Relations Community Employee 223

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. The story of each business is as unique as the products they created. project.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. Fast forward to today. He’s lived it and gets it.

Venture Capital 175

Venture Capital Agile Customer Development 175

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The other thing that we try to make everything that we do in and of (New York). We try to bring the entrepreneurs, the investors, the venture capitalists (the entire New York startup ecosystem) into everything we do. It took too long to develop and … it really wasn’t ubiquitously accessible.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Over that time period, this newsletter has emerged as a must read for the city’s startup community because of its aggressive coverage of investments, IPOs, launches, Central Texas re-locations, mergers, founder-related events and (more recently) COVID-related layoffs. though perhaps 20% or so are from Silicon Valley, New York and other hubs.

Austin 62

Austin Minnesota Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 62

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design. . - Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

For nearly eight of those years I worked at two prominent law firms in New York City, where I predominately handled major M&A transactions. For the bulk of my career, I have been representing startups and emerging-growth companies in seed financings, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactions.

Founder 45

Founder Private Equity New York City Term Sheet 45

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. We were creative designers and front-end developers in a highly creative environment, and we merged with a Boston-based back-end technology company who was working in Fortran, and old school. (In

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Third, the cumulative effect of these changes is a hollowing out of the broader US capital markets and a decline in corporate competition: the number of publicly listed companies in the US declined by 50% over the last 20 years, while other developed countries have experienced a 50% increase over the same time period. To ensure U.S.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. And then, once that curve was low enough, governments could dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus was eradicated or we developed a working vaccine.

South Korea 114

South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We had been working on a merger between BuildOnline and a competitor called iScraper. We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). I had developed a great relationship with the CEO whom I still admire (he left many years ago). We had a rallying cry.

Germany 298

Germany Entrepreneur Merger Los Angeles 298

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing. If you develop a successful business model but don’t scale, someone else will eventually copy that model, scale, and drive you out of business. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options. Uber and Lyft blitzscaled.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Audience Development. Digital audience developers and executives discuss their favorites. Leslie Ellwood, Executive Director, Audience Development, American Media Inc. Leslie Ellwood, Executive Director, Audience Development, American Media Inc. . Circulation/Audience Development. Business Development.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). You may be surprised to learn that this is already a massive industry.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

While my ownership stake in the company has been diluted through these financings (and the merger with uControl), my carried interest (paper value of my equity) has been going up with each increase in valuation. However, each financing resets the clock as new investors are looking for a multiple of their investment on exit.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. The investors of our competitor agreed to a merger and we were going to raise $15 million between the two companies. We hired a new executive management team that had to be stormed, normed and performed.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308