Haystack
JUNE 5, 2018
3/ “Value Is In The Eye Of The Network” Bean-counters may scoff at acquisitions like GitHub as poorly run businesses that aren’t (yet) profitable, but in the world of 10-figure M&A, the exits seem to be largely a function of network defensibility and uniqueness. They’re probably not far off from the truth. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
billion acquisition of Sweden-based software company Mojang, the developer behind the popular building game ““Minecraft”, which has sold over 100 million copies since its release in 2009, illustrates the degree to which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term vision for Microsoft is taking root at that company. Microsoft’s $2.5
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YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Key highlights of the tool include: It integrates seamlessly with Google Analytics, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, Zendesk, and Slack. It lets you clearly identify which activities are the main contributors to your acquisition goals. It lets you track and share the ROI of key campaigns.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in. Integrating an acquisition is difficult in the best of circumstances and can often fail to meet stakeholders’ expectations.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma.
Agile VC
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
And Microsoft’s Azure strategy has given it a strong position in public and private cloud computing. 3) Triple down on cloud infrastructure & services with Azure and acquisitions. But the company has fundamentally been playing catch up for most of the Ballmer era, and arguably has done a mediocre job of it.
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