The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions are an integral part of the business world. Matthew Brunstrum , a mergers and acquisitions advisor, explains why companies should prioritize their operations and financial considerations in order to make an acquisition succeed. The Basic Principles of Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, and an old one long out of favor, the so-called “reverse merger.” Reverse mergers may not get your startup on the Nasdaq. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. Reverse mergers may not get your startup on the Nasdaq. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

By being proactive, and empowering and rewarding your frontline employees for improving processes, you will enhance your business productivity and growth in both the short term as well as the long term. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. Make process improvement a constant focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Product-line expansion. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Even for small companies, it is critical that all employees be well-informed about what skills, technology and information can be shared with their partner and what is off-limits.

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

With today’s news on the merger between Unity and Ironsource (valuing the latter at $4.4 Israel is home to some 190 gaming companies with around 14,000 employees ? billion), Israel is incredibly well positioned to be a leader in gaming tech and infrastructure. Israeli gaming startups reached over $8.6

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 27, 2019

While the repercussions of non-compliance will keep employees awake, it can be easy to lose interest in compliance training, especially if the sessions are boring. For instance, training employees on the GDPR & CCPA requirements through PowerPoint presentations will only have them bored within the first few minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2018

With constant downsizing, mergers, and business pivots, today’s workers must be able to create a stable income. If you don’t already take on freelance work, drive an Uber, and work a part-time job, there will come a time when you no longer make a living solely as a traditional employee.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 9, 2022

It’s even more important for small businesses, where a single employee represents a significant percentage of the total workforce. Increase employee engagement and retention. If you have a planned expansion or merger in the coming year, it will have a direct impact on your hiring processes. Improve productivity.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. If you’re not focused on your customers, they will leave as soon as they find a viable alternative, and their departure is only a matter of time.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Acquisition: The acquisition is often known as a “merger and acquisition.” An acquisition or merger does not have to happen on a big scale. Who needs an exit strategy? Management buyout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Even for small companies, it is critical that all employees be well-informed about what skills, technology and information can be shared with their partner and what is off-limits.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year. Most of these companies are about 20% employee owned, so that is $3B right out of employees pockets. Door #3: The SPAC Merger.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

When contemplating a merger or acquisition, you should never overlook the human factors of post-acquisition integration , such as stress among existing employees, IT incompatibilities, and employee turnover. Smart companies use acquisitions to enhance momentum and accelerate revenue growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Product-line expansion. Consolidation.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Hospital trustees also need to be aware of how mergers and acquisitions create potential new risks and vulnerabilities. Trustees must have a strong understanding of how their systems and information connect with other systems in ways that compromise security. Also, mobile devices can easily be stolen.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees. Office Space. Virtual Office. CEO 5 - 10.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I wrote a colorfully-named post years ago called Onboarding vs. Waterboarding , which detailed out some of the general principles around onboarding new employees that our companies have used over the years. Here are a few of the themes we riffed on: Treat the new hire onboarding like you would a merger integration.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many business leaders view their corporate culture as so important that they make it a point to hire people who are a good fit for that culture – and jettison any employees who aren’t. Mergers and acquisitions are always fraught with danger both financially and culturally. Make sure employees know they are respected and valued.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 5, 2019

Third, be mindful of your management team and employees. Lastly, focus on acquisitions, not mergers. I believe mergers of equals almost never succeed in the tech industry. Rule number three is to communicate with all stakeholders – customers, employees, regulators, suppliers, and social media followers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve got 8 weeks of cash left and one of your employees just asked you to fill out a form so she can buy a house. Your employees are looking in your eyes for signs of weakness and self doubt. We had been working on a merger between BuildOnline and a competitor called iScraper. My own personal resiliency story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

You need to talk about partnerships, employee roles, distributors, and strategic alliances. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO. Most entrepreneurs underestimate the resource and time requirements for scaling, and overestimate their own range of capabilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Product-line expansion. Consolidation.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Each corporation, when chartered becomes a live person in the eyes of the law, independent and subject to the care of its board of directors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

By offering the advantages of your company, you will be able to find some great employees. And, the last choice is Merger. You can also opt for a merger with a company of similar nature. Finding the right fit is both an art and a science. Entering the Market. Congratulations, you have made it to the market. You set a goal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2013

How Empires Fall: The Publicis Omnicom Merger Underscores The Rapid Decay Of The Ad Industry – [link]. On Publicis/Omnicom merger: Between 70 & 90% of most mergers fail – [link]. Fab Lays Off More Than 100 Employees in Europe | AllThingsD – [link]. Poynter – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Product-line expansion. Consolidation.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

billion a 125% increased compared to the equivalent period in 2020, the number of Unicorns, private companies valued at $1 billion or more has grown significantly, with several companies achieving “Decacorn” status – achieving valuations of $10 billion and up, including eToro , soon to complete a SPAC merger, and Rapyd payments.

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David Teten

JULY 29, 2011

He was an early employee of a software start-up born out of the MIT Media Lab, Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP). After Frictionless Commerce, David worked for Deloitte Consulting, where he was a member of the strategy practice, with a specific focus on Mergers, Divestiture, and Restructuring engagements. He’s your guy.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

M&A/ Exits – This situation is compounded by a narrowing window for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs). Founder Factories , a study by Accel and Dealroom found that Israel ranked #1 in Europe with 181 spinout startups, with former employees that originated from 45 different unicorns.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

Mergers and Acquisitions. Corporations store employee records, confidential HR information and other management data in secure Virtual data rooms. These services have been used by companies to share information with outsiders like lawyers, auditors, partners or even customers. In the year 2015, global companies spent over $4.2

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When an employee is not the right fit that person needs to be moved on quickly (kindly and legally) for everyone’s sake, but most acutely because there is very little latitude in a startup for anything slowing progress. Startups must be obsessive on solvency, ensuring that at no point the business strays into reckless trading territory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the backdoor as a reverse merger. Reverse mergers may not get your startup on the Nasdaq. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Bow String Advisors specialize in Mergers and Acquisitions, Raising Capital, and providing Financial and Strategic Advisory services to the Health Care Staffing Industry. . He also encourages maintaining continuous contact with their employees in the field to monitor how the project is going and when it may be coming to an end.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions are a messy part of business and don’t always produce the expected outcome. In this book, you can read about some of the worst mergers ever to happen and hopefully take away some lessons that will help you in your future deal-making. Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes by Robert F.

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