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5 Tips For Growing Your Start-up Into An Attractive Acquisition Target

YoungUpstarts

For many start-up companies, the dream is to one day become the other half in a merger or acquisition with a larger, more developed organisation. Currently, all things technology based have a high acquisition rate if they can provide a service for a wide range of emerging technology markets. Be the First to Market.

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Today’s Inspired Leader – Authors Define Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Veronica Sósa, founder of Business Fit International Magazine, Business Fit Magazine and SHE (Seminar for Hispanic Entrepreneurs in Europe). “I Gabriela Rodil , an award-winning entrepreneur, international speaker, author, and gifted CEO with expertise in the areas of financial strategy, systems management, and merger & acquisitions.

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Diversity of Thought: Carlos Mallen on building diverse teams post mergers and acquisitions

Transformify

Our guest today is Carlos Mallen, Senior Vice President, Human Resources for the Americas and Europe, Exela. Prior to the formation of Exela, he was the SVP, Human Resources for Americas and Europe at SourceHOV. Prior to that, it was a group of smaller companies put together through mergers and acquisitions.

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5 Ways Venture Capital Is Shaking Up The Tech Startup Landscape In Asia

YoungUpstarts

KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 With more money being invested in startups around the region, the barriers to entry that prevent startups from entering the market are reduced. Mergers and acquisitions with tech giants and corporates. Take China-based AI startup SenseTime, for example.

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5 Lessons To Learn From Germany’s Thriving Startup Scene

YoungUpstarts

The start-ups look forward to building their ideas in Germany because they know there is a ready market for it once their innovation is perfected. When we look at the likes of Germany, and other big economies in Western Europe, the last 50 years have been vital to transforming their inner city economies into more retail focussed environments.

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What The Future Of Luxury Retail Has In Store

YoungUpstarts

The success of luxury online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter and its merger with Yoox, as well as the increased visibility of platforms like Farfetch and the like, have proved them wrong. Learning to master them will become increasingly critical for luxury brands to gain market shares. That assumption is now being challenged.

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Kernel column: The LP update meeting

The Equity Kicker

Market update. Having set the scene about us, we go on to provide data on the market as context for the performance of our funds. One of our slides today showed VC exits over $100 million since 1996, split between the US and Europe. Portfolio update. This is the longest and most important agenda item.

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