Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Note: they will typically charge you a small retainer to work together but they make most of their money on a success basis by taking a percentage of capital raised. Acquired by Amazon for $110m.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. I wanted to learn about the “secret sauce” of Dell’s merger and acquisition process which seemed to be superior based on what I had observed from my limited vantage point. So, here we go: Rajesh Setty: I understand that you are a member of Dell’s Customer Advisory Panel. How did this come to be?

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. I wanted to learn about the “secret sauce” of Dell’s merger and acquisition process which seemed to be superior based on what I had observed from my limited vantage point. So, here we go: Rajesh Setty: I understand that you are a member of Dell’s Customer Advisory Panel. How did this come to be?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options. They’ll probably kill you,” he said. Of course not.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. So what does this all mean.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Until 2004, when the U.S. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions. Takeaway : Customer data should improve the user experience, not make it tougher for people to leave. More than any other moat, switching costs often serve companies, not consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

This chart (which I saw on Broadstuff and was originally published in the Harvard Business Review ) is from audited company accounts following mergers and acquisitions: …we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Things have really picked up in terms of mergers and acquisitions. Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles. The IPO Window that saw companies like Pandora, LinkedIn, Zygna, and eventually Facebook go public, is snapped shut until at least Labor Day, said Goldmans Noto.

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