Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. The stock market is up 7.2%, which is finally providing some liquidity relief to concerned investors and startups alike. Mergers and acquisitions pace improving.

Merger 201

Merger Venture Capital United States Acquisition 201

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group. Moreover, the faster a market gets big the more valuable the market leading startup will be when it comes to exit.

Acquisition 104

Acquisition Merger Social Network Revenue 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

None of the other 29 social media folks invited to participate in DellCAP blogged for a prominent media outlet like Fast Company. Dell, like many big companies today, trolls the Internet to find out what’s being said about them so they can reach out and help as well as implement corrective action.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media PR San Francisco 94

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. If you want to search for video content on the Internet it’s far easier / more useful to do on Clicker.com than on Hulu – even for content that is offered on their site! The Road Ahead?

Video 292

Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. You know my brand name is Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Well, and full disclosure, I lucked on to Duct Tape Marketing.

Naming 45

Naming Connecticut United States Small Business 45

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Unless you’ve entered a “blue ocean market,” it’s likely that there are at least 10 other more successful companies doing what you are trying to do right now. Here’s an early example: Tuenti launched in Spain as the Spanish social network when Facebook was only just allowing 13-year-old school kids on in the USA. But that’s OK!

Spain 168

Spain North America Social Network Africa 168

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Social media. Social networking. Social games. 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.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79