David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies.

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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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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. Paid off properties also have equity that you can tap into when in need. All he needs is his laptop and internet connection. Did it happen overnight for him?

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Limited “Targeting&# of Advertisements : The great promise of the Internet for advertisers was that they were finally going to be able to deliver targeted advertisements to users because they could finally know who you were. I would reduce my equity stake much further. Boxee was created to give us this experience.

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Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

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. Participation" means that investors "double dip" by getting both their liquidation preference and their equity allocation. - This is a downside protection term.

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Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Vesting San Diego 40

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). 10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh. ’ (exclusive interview). July 10, 2012 6:59 PM. Mike Minotti. July 9, 2012 2:00 PM. Jolie O'Dell.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Internet giant Yahoo is acquiring Israeli display ad optimization technology developer start-up Dapper for $55 million. The Bank of Israel has also forecast 4% growth in 2010, though 2011 growth is seen slightly lower at 3.8%

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2010

A lot has been said about the ‘equity gap’ in Israel – the fact that Israeli funds have been struggling to raise additional funding and international funds don’t all have local presence in Israel. In total the fund hopes to make $120 million in profit from its investments. Source: TheMarker (Hebrew).

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Silicon Valley Incubator Italy 114

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process?

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group. Witness the recent margin pressure in Cisco’s core switching business.

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Acquisition Merger Social Network Revenue 104

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?

Intellectual Property 40

Intellectual Property Founder Vesting Bridge Financing 40

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Try these numbers on for size: Mergers and acquisitions activity in the past 24 months has more than halved - with only 7,300 deals closed in 2009, representing approximately $803 billion in deal value. Let's take these one by one. Compare this to the more than 13,000 deals representing $1.38 Now to this backdrop reflect on the following: 1.

Technology 67

Technology Intellectual Property Private Equity Merger 67

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

These costs are much higher than those for IPOs, even accounting for IPO Pops; SPAC shares tend to drop by one third of their value or more within a year following a merger, leaving investors who hold shares post de-SPAC most vulnerable to price declines; and SPAC investors typically differ from de-SPAC investors.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84