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How To Choose An M&A Advisor When You’re Selling Your ‘Baby’

YoungUpstarts

by Larry Fontillas, managing director of the Americas for ansarada. For a young entrepreneur, the mergers and acquisitions process can be exciting and potentially lucrative but it can also be the source of considerable stress. When reviewing potential M&A advisors, consider their background and approach to deal making.

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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. Currently, all things technology based have a high acquisition rate if they can provide a service for a wide range of emerging technology markets. Build Strategic Partnerships.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

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. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system.

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Diversity of Thought: Carlos Mallen on building diverse teams post mergers and acquisitions

Transformify

Our guest today is Carlos Mallen, Senior Vice President, Human Resources for the Americas and Europe, Exela. Prior to the formation of Exela, he was the SVP, Human Resources for Americas and Europe at SourceHOV. Prior to that, it was a group of smaller companies put together through mergers and acquisitions.

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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Reversing Unintended Consequences From Regulation is Critical to Restoring Small Company IPO’s

Pascal's View

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. Share and Enjoy:

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