YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

However, virtual data room software came as a huge relief to many companies because it reduced wastage of time and numerous expenses made to physically store data. These cloud based software programs are connected and operated on extranet. Mergers and Acquisitions. VDRs protect stored data.

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Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Security 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

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Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Unless you’re a software developer, you’ve probably never heard of Git. For all of its features, Git’s real power is enabling distributed, non-linear development. Often, the merging can be automated: the merger has a much better chance of success with 10 small commits than one big one. Git is one of those tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. New management skills. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 257

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. It’s been downhill from there.

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Merger Entrepreneur Analytics Open Source 239

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left?

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

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Merger Analytics Open Source America 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills. Marty Zwilling.

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Acquisition Merger Startup Bandwidth 214

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills.

Entrepreneur 249

Entrepreneur Merger Bandwidth Acquisition 249

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. It’s been downhill from there.

Merger 235

Merger Analytics Open Source America 235

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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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills.

Startup 232

Startup Merger Bandwidth Acquisition 232

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. New management skills.

Merger 120

Merger Acquisition Differentiation Channel 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. ITA Software.

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only. Registration rights. Drafting issues in later rounds. Unaudited annual.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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Intellectual Property Founder Vesting Bridge Financing 40

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

the #1 suite of contact and customer management software in the world, with over 2.8 business via an “ Early Exit ” strategy, including how to creatively access the public markets via a merger into a public shell And much, much more! Greg Rorke Greg Rorke’s resume speaks for itself. Former CEO of Kaplan Education Centers. Harvard MBA.

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Technology Merger Exit Strategy Affiliate 67

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. Now imagine you are selling any other asset, be it a piece of art, a home, a piece of software, or perhaps your car. Door #3: The SPAC Merger.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. Takeaway : The positive impact of market share compounds—especially for software adoption.

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Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. My partner had convinced several major Hollywood names that this was the inevitable consequence of the merger of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Customers of software applications don’t say, “wow, elegant code base.”

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Silicon Valley RSS California Video 139

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Accounting and Billing Software. Distribution. Mergers and Acquisitions. Mergers and Acquisitions. Production Software. Software and Hardware. Ad Tracking. Advertising Systems. Art and Designers. Auditing Services. Competitive Intelligence. Consultants. Consultants, Fulfillment. Content Licensing.

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Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) People with good software/technology ideas with no programming experience are automatically put at a disadvantage because they can not execute the idea themselves.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84