The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

He is very proud of what he and his team built at Newell Brands building that company from $5 billion in enterprise value in 2011 to over $15 billion when he retired, completely restructuring the company from a holding company to an operating company and transforming the portfolio through 35 transactions over an eight-year span as CEO.

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Leadership Developer Private Equity LLC 122

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The bad news is that patent trolls (non-practicing companies that make their money from licensing patents) can squeeze the lifeblood out of unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the continuing mess around Lodsys suing small Apple IOS developers. This happened to RIM (Research In Motion) , and cost them nearly $650M to recover.

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Software Intellectual Property Algorithm Startup 233

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

This patent holding company is charging infringement and demanding royalties from every app developer for the iPhone and Android, for a feature most agree has been in apps for many years. This happened to RIM (Research In Motion) , and cost them nearly $650M to recover. Yes, the software patent process is a mess.

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Software Intellectual Property Algorithm Valuation 228

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2013

The cost is typically under $100.00, and you can make up this saved cost in the first year. The less material you have to use to package an item, the less it costs. Reduce your energy costs by using energy-saving light bulbs. Buy a programmable thermostat for your business. Use recycled boxes and packaging materials.

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Green eCommerce Holding Company Cost 145

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2018

Costs of Retaining Cash. Additionally, if your C-Corp is structured as a personal holding company, you may face the sizable headache of additional taxes, on top of the corporate tax rate, triggered by undistributed personal holdings company income.

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Dividend Merger Limited Liability Company Distribution 157

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

market share today and are stuck with high real-estate costs, shitty customer service, bad value propositions and no ability to respond to competition because they have effectively become real-estate holding companies that store stuff for cashflow.

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Cofounder Venture Capital Differentiation Holding Company 150

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Most often, nonprofits serve their communities at little or no cost to the people they serve. That might lead you to believe that nonprofits are inherently socially responsible, but do your stakeholders hold the same perception? The current social climate is much different than what past generations have been accustomed to.

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Cloud Community Holding Company Reputation 98

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

billion deal in 2022 (after an IPO for Ironsource that valued the company at $11.1 BrainPop acquired by Lego’s holding company Kirby for $875M in 2022 ( source – not exactly gaming, but gamified educational tech). Below are the notable ones: Ironsource (gaming monetisation tech) merged with Unity in a $4.4

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Israel Generative AI Cloud Acquisition 133

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 31, 2021

Along with worrying about a business plan, a place, and the cost of your start-up, you also need to think about certain legal matters as well. It is imperative that you apply for an Employer Identification Number online via a holding company unless you want the IRS knocking on your door. Who wouldn’t wish to be their own boss?

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Nebraska Limited Liability Company LLC Arizona 52

Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2016

You will also need a solid business plan to help you identify your potential costs and create a roadmap that you can follow. You will want to assess the cost of the equipment needed to offer a particular service against the potential for profit. Step 1: Creating a business plan for your spa. Consider your operating hours.

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Small Business Administration Hiring Employee Design 60

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the future, companies won’t be able to exit and enter businesses as quickly as in the last decade. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. ” The minimum stakes can be staggering, and the entry costs for other kinds of products are, in fact, much higher.

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Technical Review United States Washington New York City 178

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the future, companies won’t be able to exit and enter businesses as quickly as in the last decade. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. ” The minimum stakes can be staggering, and the entry costs for other kinds of products are, in fact, much higher.

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Technical Review United States Washington New York City 162

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

A second learning for me with Expedia: Expedia was a holding company of a bunch of different operations – Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelscape – and Expedia.com was our biggest problem asset. So we doubled down on that side of the business, and then the other part is like good old fashioned cost cutting. Now we’re going to 2021.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 41

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Why do we do this even at the cost of passing on an interesting company? Well we all know that early stage companies do a lot of exploration in their problem space before settling on the exact product. I get it, they want to keep as many doors open as possible for funding.

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Venture Capital China Government Early Stage 89

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

You bought a version that you liked and you could use it for as long as you liked regardless of what happened to the underlying company. In a cloud world, software has a continuous cost of upkeep. When the company dies, the software dies. Today, one of my portfolio companies, Editorially , announced that it was shutting down.

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Cloud Cuba Product New York City 108

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2013

It may seem intrusive to some, but small business owners concerned about cutting back on costs need to consider every avenue of cost-reduction. Hold company-wide sports games in your down time on a regular basis. Others employee welfare health care healthcare healthcare costs managing costs' Sports Games.

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Cost Employee Holding Company Cloud 269

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

’s leadership team, I personally would have vigorously opposed this move because I think any benefit which might accrue to the org would be overwhelmed by a range of costs. It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo! If I were involved with Yahoo!’s

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

NG: Beacon Software is a new company that my co-founder Divya and I started earlier this year. We are a forever holding company for exceptional software businesses that serve niche or specific customer bases. We believe there are multiple ways to deliver great software to users.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

I am a huge fan of Charlie Munger, who is the Vice Chairman of the famed holding company Berkshire Hathaway. Just within the last month, Morrow had a medical crisis that almost cost him his life. By embracing globalization and making group purchases, they were able to increase quality and lower costs at the same time.

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Jordan Entrepreneur United States Technical Review 153