Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2014
If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies which are executing. What gets lost when a large company looks at the rationale for an acquisition (IP, team, product, users) is that startups are run by founders searching for a business model.
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