Acquisition Business Model Internet Merger 
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. As with any large-scale acquisition, there is a degree of risk for Microsoft, especially in consumer-oriented markets such as gaming. Analogous to Amazon’s $970 million purchase of internet video site Twitch.tv Microsoft’s $2.5
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2023
It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 1, 2020
Let’s take an example – In the case of an internet or app business, the user traction and market penetration is a must. In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Bridge or exit stage.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 22, 2020
It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. So what’s left?
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