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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Under Nadella, Microsoft has already open-sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and MSFT Edge JavaScript engine, among others.]. They’re probably not far off from the truth.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market).

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HomeAway Buys Dwellable of Seattle

SiliconHills

HomeAway, a vacation rental business, Wednesday announced its acquisition of Dwellable, an online vacation rental search engine and app based in Seattle. A time of six employees including […] The post HomeAway Buys Dwellable of Seattle appeared first on SiliconHills. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. To some extent – of course they are. It is different. More substantive. Structural.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

A little company in Seattle called Microsoft. I’m not going to talk about reforming the acquisition process, which many of your class speakers have mentioned and does need to get done. The industry was known as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs because IBM’s competitors were so far behind. They were running out of cash. Three Solutions.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Cultures with deep roots, low immigration and long memories tend to punish failure, instead of celebrating the effort. CustomerDiscovery.

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Announcing our investment in Cap Hill Brands, a next-gen CPG company

Version One Ventures

We’re excited to announce our investment in Cap Hill Brands , a Seattle startup with the mission to build a next-generation CPG company by acquiring and operating digitally-native consumer brands. The company is led by two of the best e-commerce operators and entrepreneurs we know, Kevin Saliba and Jason LeeKeenan.