Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

Corporate leadership will soon face new challenges with adhering to social distancing policies and the potential for continuing lockdowns, as well as responding to an anxious audience of both employees and customers. Make no mistake, this won’t be a single battle. It will be an ongoing war.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

You can no longer provide leadership by just “walking around” and talking to all the key people. Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth. As you might imagine, even with the proper planning, mergers and acquisitions are difficult to pull off. Increase communication, both internally and externally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion. The emphasis is on global processes and tight execution. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2013

This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. So, of course, they try to guess the internal traits, like honesty, dedication, vision, intelligence, and leadership based on external traits listed above. Not in a heated rush. Calm and self-assured, rather than desperate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2012

This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. So, of course, they try to guess the internal traits, like honesty, dedication, vision, intelligence, and leadership based on external traits listed above. Not in a heated rush. Calm and self-assured, rather than desperate.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? With their senior leadership team, my senior leadership team, again, service acquisition representatives, and we talk about the issues. And then of course, we are looking at mergers and acquisitions. And there are many, many out there.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Most often these issues have arisen from inadequate board attention to CEOs with latent conflicts on mergers and acquisitions decisions, directors who also have vendor relationships with the organization or lack independence, and inadequate processes to identify, disclose and manage potential conflicts of interest. Conflicts of Interest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion. The emphasis is on global processes and tight execution. Consolidation.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 9, 2022

It’s also a good opportunity to build organizational and leadership consensus on the directions and strategic initiatives for the upcoming year. If you have a planned expansion or merger in the coming year, it will have a direct impact on your hiring processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2021

Airlines, for example, have difficulty scaling up through mergers and acquisitions (M&As), but they can spin off their maintenance businesses and let the spin-off do the M&A in its own field. Fostering dictatorial leadership. They may not be so constrained by monopoly fears and Sarbanes-Oxley controls.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How Empires Fall: The Publicis Omnicom Merger Underscores The Rapid Decay Of The Ad Industry – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Here you need a team, people with disparate but complementary skills bonded by your leadership, to ship product and go live. We look for evidence of all the other required mindsets, and your execution and leadership skills, to make a successful business journey happen. The scale - expand to reach your full potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion. The emphasis is on global processes and tight execution. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As small companies, neither startup could afford to extend their product alone, but through creative leadership, we were able to negotiate a win-win strategic partnership for a joint product. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. They sold by minimizing the value of our features, and highlighted theirs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

Even with the most capable teams, strong leadership from the founding entrepreneur is required to keep the big picture in perspective, make hard decisions, and provide a strong image. An internal business expansion is often incompatible with established operations, thus mergers and acquisitions are the most common scaling strategies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Look for a merger or acquisition that will bring multiplier resources to your business, such as related successful products, a positive brand image, or a proven distribution network. These multipliers also are no substitute for a highly engaged and trained team, supplied with the right tools and leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

If this is personally your first startup, it’s very important to highlight prior leadership experience in school, business, or public life, and your ability to attract skilled people for your team, as well as advocates from your industry, social media, or prior relationships. Present a viable exit strategy for investors to cash out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Additional defensibility elements that unicorn investors look for include speed of implementation, rate of revenue and user growth, and exceptional team strength and leadership. Credible yet flexible exit strategy. The number of new ventures that successfully navigate the path to a public offering (IPO) with big numbers is still small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. So, of course, they try to guess the internal traits, like honesty, dedication, vision, intelligence, and leadership based on external traits listed above. Not in a heated rush. Calm and self-assured, rather than desperate.

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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. The American Hospital Association offers several resources to assist hospital trustees with bolstering cybersecurity efforts.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 5, 2019

Lastly, focus on acquisitions, not mergers. I believe mergers of equals almost never succeed in the tech industry. Rather, focus on acquiring companies that will create or accelerate your leadership in key markets. Also, be transparent about the prospect of layoffs, either immediately or in the long-term.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. Two years later we made it a full merger, and I joined the Tieto management team. It was a true leadership nightmare.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. Both leadership teams may need to find ways of providing such information without being compromised. In most cases, board members request an involvement in leadership and operational facets of a company. Board Communications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

The best known ones, like YCombinator , started by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky. Do your homework before investing. It’s a lot easier to buy stock in a startup than it is to sell it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2020

by Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications and author of “ Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOS “ Taxes aren’t fun to pay. There, I said it.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

There are numerous great books out there on business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and other topics of interest to MBA students that can be immensely valuable to anyone looking to build their knowledge and prepare for a career in business. Mergers and acquisitions are a messy part of business and don’t always produce the expected outcome.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions. Appointing Outpost leadership as a temporary assignment leads to weak relations between the innovation ecosystem and the Innovation Outpost and increases the risk of failure. Lessons Learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

Such is leadership. Of course there are times where a board’s voice is gospel: mergers, raising capital, replacing the CEO, etc. It occurred to me that it was my job to find the data, synthesize it, summarize my conclusions, provide options for better decision-making and lead the decision-making process.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Here are a few of the themes we riffed on: Treat the new hire onboarding like you would a merger integration. Well, because adding a new exec to your company is kind of like…a merger integration. Make a long checklist. Assign each item an owner and participating parties.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

What about dramatic mergers and acquisitions – aren’t those the panacea to ailing companies? He mentioned that Gillette started faltering in 1998 when its leadership became distracted by non-core projects in the book. Are charismatic superstar CEOs the answer to enduring success?

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