Board Effect

JANUARY 27, 2020

Do candidates share a similar view of culture as the rest of the board? A merger or acquisition is a major event that can seriously affect an organization’s culture. In conducting regular board self-evaluations, are enough of the questions dedicated toward culture? Revisit the Topic of Culture During Times of Drastic Change.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Hear from venture investors and successful entrepreneurs to find out what factors they considered and how you can make your pitch stand out from the rest. Just this week they announced a merger with a Greek shell company as a fast track to going public. Time: 12:30PM?—?1:30PM 1:30PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon March 13, 2018 2:00PM?—?3:00PM

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. It's safe to say I've never looked back! Thanks to Mariah Althoff. #20-

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Announcement of a new acquisition or merger. The core details of the announcement should be addressed, and the rest of your PR only serves as supporting information. Check out these examples of good PR story topics: How your product or service saved someone’s life. Sharing your milestones or achievements. New branch opening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. This may seem intuitively obvious, but as an angel investor, I have heard hundreds of new business pitches that focus heavily on the product, but don’t tell the rest of the story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Liquidate the assets, cash out investors, and keep the rest.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2017

Being one of Europe’s powerhouses when it comes to manufacturing , Germany has realised that the future rests with innovation. The support system of coworking makes start-ups less likely to fail and make matters such as mergers much easier. Accepting new technology.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Out of gratitude, those 500 customers continue coming to you every day for the rest of their lives. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups. The next day, when the prices are restored, it’s just five people in the restaurant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Liquidate the assets, cash out investors, and keep the rest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. Most investors don’t want long-term commitments.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2017

They defend individuals or corporations in acquisitions and mergers, business contracts, disputes and resolutions, and just about anything that screams “legal.”. Sifting through corporate lawyers is a must if you need the best from the rest. The Hot Seat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. of MySpace, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And, at a $77 billion purchase price, it is one of the largest mergers in the history of healthcare and will enrich Aetna shareholders to the tune of a 29% percent premium on their stock shares. Far more interesting is what it means for the rest of us. But that is the least interesting part of the deal.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Along with the rest of British industry, the pharmaceutical sector was under going massive re-organization and mergers creating much of today’s big pharma in the process. At that time for any life-scientist wanting to work in the commercial sector there were few, if any, jobs in the UK.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. You can never rest, that’s for sure, running a small business. Knock on wood.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. They later renamed their search engine research project “Google,” and the rest is history. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Liquidate the assets, cash out investors, and keep the rest.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

At Razorfish, Craig’s lack of startup experience showed: We expanded too quickly, and in particular we merged with a company that was a complete culture clash with the rest of the company. After the merger people were asking, “Why am I working for these people now? In hindsight, the culture) mattered a huge amount.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2016

Before you knew it, your project was suddenly profitable, and though the sky was clearly the limit, your idea was too different from the rest of the parent company’s business to stay at home. And just like a merger or acquisition, you’ve got a big PR opportunity on your hands here. Time to strike out on your own!

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Board Effect

JULY 31, 2019

Automated emails and notifications allow board members to handle one activity, schedule reminders and get on with the rest of their business. It’s crucial that they have efficient scheduling tools and shared calendars. Boards deal with thousands and thousands of documents.

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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?

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

One common option is a dedicated assumptions tab that flows into the rest of the model, and then outputs key pieces of data right at the bottom of the assumptions tab, so that the key inputs and outputs are in one place. 11) Separate out your model output.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

So Frank Merger from GooBook starts talking to ZombiePlatypus. Now that Joe and Wayne have solved their money problem, maybe they will want to create some world-changing stuff after some resting-and-vesting. Forget that stupid 18% free-time web app project, and come help make some mon-ay. The quarterly report must look good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Liquidate the assets, cash out investors, and keep the rest.

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Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

I’ve heard of similar “advisory” requests from other big celebrities, ranging from a 50-90% stake, which is really more like a merger. Unlike the rest of the team though, advisors get full acceleration on an exit (e.g. 4 year vesting, full acceleration on exit, optional cliff. Going back to the more normal 0.5-2%,

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Equity Vesting Advisory Board Merger 46

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Companies like that tend to be great M&A (merger and acquisition) targets, as you cannot repeat it by throwing money or a team as it’ll take time. For example, most of the games in the Western market mainly let you play one to three chapters, then you would have to pay to unlock the rest of it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. That was a very interesting time for me, I was in a unique position of getting a chance to witness a merger (that I still believe was a good idea) go horribly wrong. Whether it was the execution of the merger or something else, the fact is that it went awry.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

As an individual entrepreneur, you might prefer a world without competition, but the rest of the world is better off when competition occurs. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options. Competition drives better products and services, lower prices, and people taking risks to innovate. Of course not.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

… We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. I will post separately on valuation metrics and the implications of the dichotomy between recent public company valuations and merger & acquisition statistics.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Even now, he’s juggling his MBA along with an inordinate amount of operations and integration work with the Engauge + Moxie merger. He is easily the hardest working person I’ve ever met. I never could figure out how he does it. You were always amazing at jumping into something you knew nothing about and figuring it out.

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Partner Charlotte Atlanta Merger 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to Yahoo Finance , less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns currently reach their goals, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. Professional investors like to keep tight control of capitalization tables and all stock owners, to facilitate their own payoff when a sale, merger, or public stock offering is held.

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Equity Due Diligence Angel Groups Liquidity Event 180

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

But I suspect he, and the rest of Hulu, are starting to discover the Faustian bargain of having the big media suppliers as large shareholders in a world where startups or other tech companies get to play by their own rules. And yet I imagine that this lack of innovation must irritate nobody more than the CEO of Hulu, Jason Kilare.

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