Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

What’s clear though is that the multiples for 2007 are trending down from those of 2006… If you’re an entrepreneur out fundraising, you need to keep these multiples in mind. I use figures like that as 3rd party data when discussing valuations.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 16, 2013

When we were selling Spunlogic, the process took us from mid-summer of 2007 until March 26, 2008. And then after we sold, we were distracted with the merger. But with each mistake made there was new wisdom gained. An example. And as you can imagine we were thoroughly distracted during that period.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. 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. This is often in the 5-7% range. TechCrunch.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I had already left my good paying job when my son was born in 2007 so failure was not an option. Prior to founding Rukkus, I was a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs where I was a member of the advisory team for the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger as well as the Groupon IPO. I started my company in 2009 out of pure necessity.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 19, 2012

The data shows that there were over 150 such exits for US companies, up from around 100 per year in the previous peak in 2005-2007, whereas Europe has yet to exceed the 40 or so deals at this level we were seeing at that time. One of our slides today showed VC exits over $100 million since 1996, split between the US and Europe.

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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). It was 2007. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank.

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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. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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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). It was 2007. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

I will post separately on valuation metrics and the implications of the dichotomy between recent public company valuations and merger & acquisition statistics. tech sector have more than doubled since 2007. It is also now evident that these inflated valuations have not proven to be sustainable in the public markets.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Veronis, Suhler & Company and Cowles Media Company and held various operations positions at The Black Book. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.

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aweissman.com

AUGUST 29, 2007

Aug 29, 2007. Tags: advertising , mergers. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. End to end online ad provider? Brian Norgard wonders if its possible: "The mythical, “End-to-end,” solution is much discussed yet far from being realized. at 4:25 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

The investors of our competitor agreed to a merger and we were going to raise $15 million between the two companies. We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. And at the 11th hour they pulled out.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Try these numbers on for size: Mergers and acquisitions activity in the past 24 months has more than halved - with only 7,300 deals closed in 2009, representing approximately $803 billion in deal value. trillion in value that got done in 2007 - the last "normal" year. Compare this to the more than 13,000 deals representing $1.38

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Mergers and acquisitions have also been down, especially the large deals. The Trickle-Down Effect : The total venture investment in 2007 was around $29B dollars. The blame is attributed to adverse incentives of legislation like Sarbanes Oxley and the bad financial markets. What does this mean?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Founded in 2007, Percello provides innovative and customized solutions that address the key business and technological challenges of equipment vendors in the emerging Femtocell market. Ernst & Young (E&Y), one of the “Big Four&# global auditors, forecasts Israel will have 24 mergers and acquisitions in 2010, worth about $1.75

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