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5 Tips For Growing Your Start-up Into An Attractive Acquisition Target

YoungUpstarts

For many start-up companies, the dream is to one day become the other half in a merger or acquisition with a larger, more developed organisation. Like the saying goes, ‘networking is everything’ and it’s all about who you know. Build Strategic Partnerships.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape.

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The Essential MBA Library

YoungUpstarts

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. Networking and Communication. Bruner and Arthur Levitt Jr.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Social networking. However, one of the advantages of Bing Fund investment is that Sood will set up a network of mentors for each startup, drawing from experts across Microsoft, including product experts, marketing experts, or scientists in Microsoft Research. Streaming media. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Social media.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

8:30 Networking. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Time: 6:30pm Registration, 7:00pm Program. For a preview of the discussion, see “ Introduction to Angel Investing ”. Agenda: 4-speaker panel on February 28th, 6:30-9pm.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. 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. What Have I Done And Why Do I Know What I Know?