YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

According to news reports , the origins of the company’s woes can be traced all the way back to 1997 when Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, a merger that immediately led to a clash of cultures. Mergers and acquisitions are always fraught with danger both financially and culturally. At Boeing, engineers were king.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2013

build Compaq Financial Services (CFS) from its inception in 1997 into a global force with over $3.7 billion in assets, and how he created HP Financial Services by combining two disparate captive finance companies after the merger of HP and Compaq.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Reverse Merger. Although some reverse mergers are legitimate, many are not. By 1997, the company’s penny stocks were valued at $4.4 Penny stock scammers often spread false rumors to damage the integrity of a company to get stock prices to fall. Mining Scams. Walsh falsely claimed that Bre-X found a gold mine in Burma.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. What do you tell somebody in that situation? They were envious.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. What do you tell somebody in that situation? They were envious.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Reply mikev , on June 15, 2009 at 12:03 pm Said: What happened to Convergent Technologies work ethic and business ethics after the merger with Unisis? As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. Life is good.

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