YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Beyond Lenovo’s famous acquisition of IBM’s PC business, entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda bought American cinema operator AMC Entertainment followed by British yacht builder Sunseeker. Through differentiated sourcing, companies can better hedge their risks in the event that the Chinese economy implodes.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Israel Minister: No Change to Egypt Deal Israels foreign minister said Israel would not agree to re-evaluate its peace deal with Egypt. Meanwhile, an Egypt-based, al Qaeda-inspired group claimed responsibility for Fridays attack along the border.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. I wrote extensively about this at the time of their first acquisitions , including this passage: “I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management (CMS) company.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The way it works is that you compute the total cost of your Social Media program: SM employee salaries and benefits, agency fees, content acquisition/production costs, analyst salaries, executive time invested etc. From Egypt to Ferguson, the ability of video to foster change. Then, you withdraw that amount of money in $5 bills.

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