Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

His focus is on America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Offshore Merger Technical Review 263

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline.

Offshore 139

Offshore Merger Technical Review Distribution 139

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on.

Management 297

Management Merger Leadership Affiliate 297

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline.

Offshore 120

Offshore Startup Merger Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

Merger 276

Merger Analytics Open Source America 276

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape. He also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Veronis, Suhler & Company and Cowles Media Company and held various operations positions at The Black Book.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on.

Merger 233

Merger Leadership Affiliate America 233

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. In his case, he built commercial buildings in Toronto, Canada.

Entrepreneur 133

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. It’s been downhill from there.

Merger 239

Merger Entrepreneur Analytics Open Source 239

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

Merger 120

Merger Analytics Open Source America 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions are a messy part of business and don’t always produce the expected outcome. In this book, you can read about some of the worst mergers ever to happen and hopefully take away some lessons that will help you in your future deal-making. Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes by Robert F.

Merger 228

Merger Leadership Design Management 228

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on.

Leadership 265

Leadership Founder Startup Merger 265

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. It’s been downhill from there.

Merger 235

Merger Analytics Open Source America 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on.

Leadership 158

Leadership Merger Affiliate America 158

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2017

And unlike America that’s currently on the move to get rid of imported talent from certain countries, Germany embraces the concept of importing talent. The support system of coworking makes start-ups less likely to fail and make matters such as mergers much easier. But it’s not just old companies that are thriving in Germany.

Germany 133

Germany Europe Merger Startup 133

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2015

The first Startup Weekend took place in Boulder in June 2007 and I’ve been on the UP Global board since it was formed by the merger of Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership. The merger of these two great organizations is a logical next step in the expansion of vibrant startup communities around the world.

Global 70

Global Merger Community Early Stage 70

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

IPO’s are essential to job growth in America and to maintaining a balanced innovation ecosystem for two important reasons. Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. years over the same time frame.

IPO 28

IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human variables, as well as the people they depend on.

Entrepreneur 264

Entrepreneur Merger Leadership Affiliate 264

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

It was fiercely independent, and was, until its HP acquisition, one of the few PC makers still assembling computers in North America. About VentureBeat The VentureBeat Deals & More section covers venture capital, angel investors, superangels, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, investment banks, and other financiers of innovation.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. These were the very same products that we are used to purchasing in malls and department stores here in the United States of America. In America, the cost of doing business is very high.

SEO 86

SEO PPC America Design 86

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

“This merger will launch the next Internet revolution,” said Steve Case, America Online’s chairman and chief executive, told a news conference Monday. We only know that was the peak in hindsight – at the time it looked like it validated a lot of what we were doing by investing in the Internet.

Merger 70

Merger Stock Internet America 70

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2018

Securing big new clients Joint ventures/strategic partnerships Raising capital Mergers & acquisitions etc. For starters (and paradoxically), they are lousy dealmakers because so many of them possess those best qualities of Main Street America - prudence, thriftiness, deliberateness, and consistency.

Merger 48

Merger Differentiation America Acquisition 48

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Stefanova was a Senior Manager at IBM, Global Business Services, specializing in post-merger integration and change management in the financial services and technology industry in Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA).

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

This won’t pose much of a challenge in North America, where English and Spanish covers pretty much the whole population. Mergers and acquisitions anyone? Grab their Twitter handle and offer them your far superior service! Careful not to become their next punching bag! . Take advantage of their inability to be everywhere.

Spain 168

Spain North America Social Network Africa 168

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

business via an “ Early Exit ” strategy, including how to creatively access the public markets via a merger into a public shell And much, much more! How to finance a tech. We will connect with Greg via web conference on Thursday, September 30th, at 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT.

Technology 67

Technology Merger Exit Strategy Affiliate 67

Venture Chronicles

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Paul Greenberg wrote a lengthy piece about his complex relationship with United Airlines and their potential for service downgrading as a result of the merger with Continental. But…I still fly United.

Customer 45

Customer Merger Vesting America 45

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The fact that a great deal of the content produced by tech news sites concerns startup companies might make an observer from another planet think America is a veritable nursery for brilliant business ideas. Jay Ritter, for testimony before the Senate Banking Committee].

IPO 121

IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

GDP growth and job creation will be still-born and be forced in to a merger? Deninger points out in the article that “In recent years, VC firms have become too dependent on mergers and acquisitions as the exit strategy of choice. ” An addendum to his quote should be that merger synergy is code for firing people.

IPO 40

IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. That was a very interesting time for me, I was in a unique position of getting a chance to witness a merger (that I still believe was a good idea) go horribly wrong. Whether it was the execution of the merger or something else, the fact is that it went awry.

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. Fast forward a few years, I am now living in the United States of America as a naturalized citizen. By the way, I am also the first in my family’s lineage to work for a paycheck.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

.” While this post is about the Demand Pull companies, we should all be focused on the Supply Push companies if we want to move the needle on job creation, risk taking, and new venture formation in America. It is also now evident that these inflated valuations have not proven to be sustainable in the public markets.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318