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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

And as you start to distribute your forces, they are almost by definition, they begin to be cut off. They’re in Africa, they’re in South America, they are globally represented. Should the Joint Staff have a structure for the acquisition of capabilities, making sure it matches the modernization of our operational concepts?

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4- When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. He expressed to me the idea that investing in Africa was—he used the word “risky.” I don’t think investing in Africa is risky. I think he meant the word “scary.” It scared him.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. But again the store of value in prepaid minutes was the key.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation. See a sample reprint in PDF format.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more. Diverse Founding Teams returned 3.3x, while White Founding Teams returned 2.5x.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

. “The affirmation reflects the resumption of the downward trend in public deficits and debt, the robust outlook for Israeli growth, and a strengthening in the sovereign’s external balance sheet,&# said Purvi Harlalka, director at Fitch’s Middle East and Africa Sovereign Ratings Group. for about $418 million.