The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. TouchPal X Keyboard is an alternative to pre-installed keyboards on Android smartphones.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I think Boulder is increasingly becoming known as one of the leading start-up cities in the United States (for example, here’s a recent BusinessWeek story naming Boulder the #1 city in the country for start-ups). We’ve all seen the global statistics – August was an unusually strong month for mergers and acquisitions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. We discussed: 1. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. Name of security. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only. Registration rights. Series Seed. Series Seed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing. Ortho kills.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. My partner had convinced several major Hollywood names that this was the inevitable consequence of the merger of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. We believed that by putting full motion video (i.e.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. No need to name names. Morgan credit card business to acquire tons of Square customers at a very low cost.

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Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 23, 2009

These provisions include a special class of super-voting common stock, called “Class F&# common stock, which is named for “Founders.&#. The Class F common stock and the Class A common stock otherwise participate equally with respect to dividends and distributions and other economic rights.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. First Name. Company Name. * Distribution. Mergers and Acquisitions. and the impact of those for our traffic.” Industry Offers & Promotions. Webinars, Content & Events.

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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. In response, an opportunity in the designer merchandise market had been identified by some key wholesalers and distributors of designer accessories (such as purses, belts, eye wear, perfumes and colognes to name a few.)

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

One of the first I was exposed to was the merger between Peter Thiel's Confinity/PayPal and Elon Musk's X.com. Not surprisingly, the merger was highly dilutive, particularly to Confinity/PayPal shareholders. Looking back five years later, it appears that the merger was a very expensive partner acquisition strategy for iControl.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. You used to be able to raise venture money based on an idea and a team, but those days are long gone unless your name is Ev Williams or something similar. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

His name is Tomas Pueyo. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. In fact, I want to say one of the biggest positive surprises of all of this has been actually meeting people like you, where I obviously had heard your name working in Silicon Valley.

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