Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships. This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships. This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you pull a term sheet for a weak reason, you look really bad in the industry, and you look really bad to your own partners because you have now tarnished the reputation of everyone in your firm because of your actions. M&A is much less of a multi-turn game. Second, don’t be too quick to get to the LOI.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

strategic investors (including corporates). traditional institutional LPs such as fund of funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds ( our investors ). First fund is like a seed round – it’s based on pitch and reputation. high net worth individuals. family offices.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

A corporate investor can provide diversity on the Board as someone who thinks differently from independent VCs. Corporate venture funds are often referred to as ‘strategic’ investors because of the unique benefits they bring to the table. Teten: What makes for a good vs. bad corporate venture investor?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

They have a notorious reputation for copying ideas of others and creating their own versions, and this even applies to companies they have invested in. The continent’s top investors are now directing their focus on the most exciting market in the region: Southeast Asia. As an example, just look at KakaoTalk relative to WeChat.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

They don’t do this because a VC has to protect its reputation with other VCs so sending others your problems isn’t going to win them over for more important deals. “We want some financial investors and some strategic investors so we have to split it up.&# Strategic investors are oxymorons.

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