Distribution Merger Naming Operations 
ReadWriteStart
JULY 17, 2023
Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. The company is the maker of the popular mattress brand Sleepwell, which has been a household name in India for over four decades. The deal is a win-win situation for both Furlenco and Sheela Foam.
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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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left?
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. 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.
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.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 7, 2018
The success of luxury online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter and its merger with Yoox, as well as the increased visibility of platforms like Farfetch and the like, have proved them wrong. Four main retail models are currently leveraged by luxury brands, namely: In-house, fully-owned platforms. That assumption is now being challenged.
VC Adventure
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
I was running a few business units for a small public company and while I enjoyed the operational side of my job, I was also responsible for M&A and partnerships and had a particular affinity for the transactional side of my job. This product obsession starts with the CEO and pervades the management teams and operations of our companies.
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