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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. Finding a partner that melds well with your existing business plan and internal infrastructure will help in ensuring that your partner enhances your performance, without hindering it.

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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 Brian Marshall, founder of Transformational Growth Partners (TGP). “ A good leader is also someone who can admit and learn from failure.”. It is that simple.”.

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

YoungUpstarts

by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. Mergers and acquisitions with tech giants and corporates. Instead of expanding further, this group might be considered by corporates for mergers and acquisitions. There is a thin line between success and failure for startups, and that is usually determined by capital.

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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. Florine has over 10 years of experience in marketing and luxury across Europe and Asia and is an award-winning digital entrepreneur and author.

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Kernel column: The LP update meeting

The Equity Kicker

As a reminder, LPs, or limited partners, are the investors in venture capital funds. One of our slides today showed VC exits over $100 million since 1996, split between the US and Europe. Another slide showed venture investments in Europe by sector, and provided the basis for a discussion about our sector strategy.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). Holy sh*t!!!

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Previously, he was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Arrowhawk Capital Partners, an investment company and the Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Golden Pond Healthcare, Inc.