Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. You’re not their core business – their interest will swing more wildly with the markets. The market knew he was an investor yet he wouldn’t promote us within his own company. Yeah, I know.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2019

If you are looking for an online storage solution to keep, share, edit or distribute files, the Virtual Data Rooms or VDR is your best resort. It is widely used for mergers and acquisitions to help entities collaborate and disclose data for transparency. It accepts all file formats such as audio, video, and documents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

Offshore 139

Offshore Merger Technical Review Distribution 139

Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2025

We hired a strong mid-market banker, Lightning Partners to help us with the process and got an introduction to Bending Spoons in April of 2024. HW: If a CEO wants to understand whether theres a M&A market for their company, how can they take the temperature without scaring their team or investors?

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Covenant Acquisition IPO Artificial Inteligence 77

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

The global games and services market is forecast to reach $188 billion in 2022, a 1.2% Private financing market continued to see strong deal activity with $3.6B The M&A market for gaming is expected to continue to heat up in the second half of 2022. The merger of Unity and Ironsource (a $4.4

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Forecast IP Mobile Acquisition 190

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

Offshore 120

Offshore Startup Merger Technical Review 120

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

The good news is this team found a business model, product/market fit and a repeatable sales model. In this mission-centric Transition stage, hierarchy is added, but responsibility and decision making become more widely distributed as the span of control gets broader than one individual can manage. What’s Next.

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Agile Development Team Review Leadership Merger 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

by Gabriel Cabot, digital marketing strategist at Firmex, Inc. Mergers and Acquisitions. This in turn led to the creation of online repository sites that enabled the distribution and storage of information by multiple parties. This required high operational costs like round the clock staff, abundant paper supplies and couriers.

Software Review 100

Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Security 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

In my role of business advisor to startups, I often recommend these to increase initial brand identity and market penetration. With the rate of market change today, and the advent of worldwide competitors, you need every strategy you can muster to keep up, and respond quickly to new threats.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

billion in funding so far in 2024, with Mergers and acquisitions reaching $9.6 Well done Ari Recht and team Odigos on your $13M seed extension to automate distributed data tracing in order to make it easier to detect performance issues in complex data systems using open source technologies! May their memories forever be a blessing.

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Israel Generative AI Open Source Security 78

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. Economies of scale. New management skills.

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Merger Acquisition Startup Bandwidth 243

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Economies of scale. New management skills.

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Acquisition Merger Startup Bandwidth 214

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Marketing Intern. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Below is an example of how some companies may approach distributing equity to employees. Mission Statement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Economies of scale. New management skills.

Entrepreneur 249

Entrepreneur Merger Bandwidth Acquisition 249

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. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what's happened in the capital markets over the last 20 years--the good and the bad? What about in the public markets?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Anchor Your Sales And Marketing Efforts. Maximizing your PR efforts involves defining, controlling, and distributing relevant messages in the form of a press release to your target media outlets, as well as your intended audience and business partners. Announcement of a new acquisition or merger. New branch opening.

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Public Relations Business Plan PR Distribution 235

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Economies of scale. New management skills.

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Startup Merger Bandwidth Acquisition 232

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. My work took me all around the world and during one of these trips I was pleasantly shocked to see the prices at which designer perfumes and colognes sold for in some markets overseas. I mean why not?

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SEO PPC America Search 97

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

If you believe you have a market-leading position in your product space I would worry a bit less about it. The problem with “bundling” other news stories is that you then lose the ability to market those the press outlets in their own right. So in my opinion you should design your funding story to get wide distribution.

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Startup PR Dividend Merger 355

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The themes we pursue tend to be horizontal in nature and are often driven by underlying technology protocols and standards or emerging market trends and customer needs. From my perspective the results of that obsession is obvious when you look at what each of our companies is doing to change their respective markets.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 59

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Bringing Innovation to Market. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sure, Amazon owns Whole Foods, which has about 350 physical locations, but they are large food distribution facilities (e.g. Amazon’s market cap is $930b. Starbucks’ market cap is $104b. That’s roughly a 90% / 10% merger assuming no premium for Starbucks. coffee shops).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Image via Pixabay.com Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. Economies of scale.

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Merger Acquisition Differentiation Channel 120

ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

The acquisition will help Sheela Foam enter the fast-growing branded furniture market and expand its presence in the furniture industry. Sheela Foam has a market capitalization of over $1 billion and has a network of more than 100 factories across India. The deal, proposed at $36.5 million, has valued Furlenco at about $104.3

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India Acquisition Merger Curation 104

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. Learning to master them will become increasingly critical for luxury brands to gain market shares. That assumption is now being challenged.

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Artificial Inteligence Cofounder .Net Merger 147

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It is also the world’s largest smartphone market. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The goal of most startup companies is to increase their market share and revenues. Go for Market Leaders. This thinking makes companies avoid acquiring costly market leaders in favor of cheaper companies with a smaller market share often with disastrous results. A good example of synergy is distribution synergy.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’. billion merger with 21 st -Century Fox, many experts feel Netflix will need a stronger distribution and acquisition arm in order to compete.

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Merger Acquisition Stock Valuation 70

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

business via an “ Early Exit ” strategy, including how to creatively access the public markets via a merger into a public shell And much, much more! If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this email is prohibited and may be unlawful. How to finance a tech.

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Brent Wistrom edits the daily Austin Inno Beat email newsletter , which has emerged over the last five years as a must-read source of information for the city’s startup, entrepreneurial and investment communities The Forrest Files: August 6, 2020 Brent Wistrom is a senior editor at American Inno , overseeing half of Inno’s 14 markets.

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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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Merger LP IPO Redemption 28

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Marketing a brand or product can be a daunting task for the uninitiated. The new age of advertising and marketing lies in a combination. With new virtual and augmented reality technologies emerging, the merger of traditional and digital media is more than just on the horizon. Design, print and distribute.

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