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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

More often than not the results of these acquisitions are disappointing. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. Is the Potential Acquisition Searching or Executing?

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). Founding Date: 2004.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Employees. Office Space. Virtual Office.

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Basic Accounting And Legal Aspects That Every Business Owner Should Know

YoungUpstarts

To start off, we should understand something very simple, and it is that the reason for creating a new entity four our business venture is to protect ourselves as people/individuals. For me, each new business venture should have between 2 (two) and a maximum of 4 (four) founders for optimal operation. Participation.

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7 Examples of Effective Cross-selling (and Why They Work)

ConversionXL

This will improve customer lifetime value (CLTV), making customer acquisition costs (CAC) healthier. For example, a fast-food restaurant employee asking if you’d like fries with your order or a phone retailer asking if you’d like to bundle your handset with a cover. Cross-selling can be a powerful tool for retention and acquisition.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Our long-term goal is to ensure that the best people can consistently find their calling within the HOF family, including identifying logical next career progression opportunities across different HOF companies when a rising employee does not have a logical next move within her current employer. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.). He also is an advisor to corporations and startups, having spent a decade at the consulting firm Accenture. . Clay : Yeah.

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