Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. But remember that “dancing with the wolves” can also get you eaten for lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Partial acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Explore partners and M&A to solidify your strategy. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. Get outside the company regularly to get feedback on future customer needs, emerging technologies, and the views of influencers and experts in the field.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With over three decades of experience in private equity investments, acquisitions and mergers, Mark Hauser has developed a keen ability to recognize trends and do his due diligence. Another frequent partner for Hauser Private Equity is the Santa Monica-based Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Digital Transformation.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio , co-founder of Hillcrest Merchant Partners, has years of significant experience with advising clients on mergers and acquisitions raising capital and navigating the landscape of general capital markets. Hillcrest Merchant Partners with Donato Sferra. In 2017, he embarked on a new venture, founding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

My recommendation to our lead partner looking at the deal, “Pass. I lived through the era of companies doing premature mergers. That’s why immature teams spend so much time on mergers. A merger is not the panacea. There is no such thing a “merger of equals&#. million uniques.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 29, 2024

Your Business Is Undergoing a Major Transformation Your contractual obligations can shift dramatically when your business goes through a major transformation—like a merger, acquisition, or significant expansion. Protect your hard work and your dreams by partnering with a contract expert who can guide you every step of the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Both partners must not forget they are still competitors. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. entrepreneurs startup strategic partners tough competitors' Expand core competency and solidify strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Both partners must not forget they are still competitors. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Expand core competency and solidify strengths. Willing to learn from each other. The industry leader arrogance has not yet set in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Both partners must not forget they are still competitors. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Expand core competency and solidify strengths. Willing to learn from each other. The industry leader arrogance has not yet set in.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

9- A merger of two companies. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2014

For many start-up companies, the dream is to one day become the other half in a merger or acquisition with a larger, more developed organisation. Finding a partner that melds well with your existing business plan and internal infrastructure will help in ensuring that your partner enhances your performance, without hindering it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Both partners must not forget they are still competitors. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Expand core competency and solidify strengths. Willing to learn from each other. The industry leader arrogance has not yet set in.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. If you’re not focused on your customers, they will leave as soon as they find a viable alternative, and their departure is only a matter of time.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

The report sums up the exits of Israeli high-tech companies in merger & acquisition deals and initial public offerings, as well as buyout deals, from 2012 to H1/2017. In the past 6 months, exits comprised 46 merger & acquisition (M&A) deals, seven initial public offerings (IPOs) and four buyouts, totalling $1.51

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn. Super angels are individuals or small teams using their own money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. But remember that “dancing with the wolves” can also get you eaten for lunch.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The acquisition has Microsoft primed to capitalize on opportunities for education and simulation software, bringing with it longer-term opportunities for Microsoft and its roster of hardware and software partners to sell their products and services into commercial markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Both partners must not forget they are still competitors. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition. Expand core competency and solidify strengths. Willing to learn from each other. The industry leader arrogance has not yet set in.

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Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

And in addition to strengthening our interoperability with allies and partners. To ensure cyber security is also foundational for our partners in industry, the department created the Cybersecurity Maturity Model certification , which we call CMMC. And then of course, we are looking at mergers and acquisitions.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2015

By Janis Kestenbaum , a partner in Perkins Coie. If your website or app (or its affiliates or business partners) collects, uses or discloses information that can be used to identify an individual or a device (e.g., Startups have bigger concerns than privacy, or so they think. Say what you do. Do what you say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2013

Successful entrepreneurs already have a visible network of trusted suppliers, potential customers, partners, and even investors. This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Listens before answering questions. Networked and connected. These are critical to any venture. Full disclosure attitude.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2012

Successful entrepreneurs already have a visible network of trusted suppliers, potential customers, partners, and even investors. This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Listens before answering questions. Networked and connected. These are critical to any venture. Full disclosure attitude.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Angel Investor Elevator Pitch 294

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

Investment bank Drake Star Partners published a report on the gaming investment and M&A activity in the first half of 2022. The merger of Unity and Ironsource (a $4.4 Toya partners with IP holders to create engaging experiences, like Miraculous Ladybug Role Play, which has just won the Best Alternative Game 2022 by Kidscreen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

For technical innovators, I often recommend finding a partner with deep business savvy. Starting a new business does put you in control, but you will face a harrowing new set of demands from partners, investors, suppliers, and customers. This is a clear case where one plus one equals three. New businesses are expected to be chaotic.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We had been working on a merger between BuildOnline and a competitor called iScraper. The first came from the CEO of iScraper telling me that they would not be able to complete the deal – their investor, Apax Partners, had decided not to proceed despite verbal assurances that they would. .&# (quote via David Fishman ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. “My invention and prototype works, but I need funding to continue.” Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. In addition to getting plugged into the ecosystem’s network, the first role of the Outpost is to partner. In what order?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn. Super angels are individuals or small teams using their own money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Successful entrepreneurs already have a visible network of trusted suppliers, potential customers, partners, and even investors. This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Listens before answering questions. Networked and connected. These are critical to any venture. Full disclosure attitude.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 241

Cracking the Code

JUNE 5, 2019

Alongside former Accel partner Joe Schoendorf, John offered insights on the realities of leading a fast-growing company and handling issues of talent, culture, strategy, and scale. Lastly, focus on acquisitions, not mergers. I believe mergers of equals almost never succeed in the tech industry.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

According to news reports , the origins of the company’s woes can be traced all the way back to 1997 when Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, a merger that immediately led to a clash of cultures. Mergers and acquisitions are always fraught with danger both financially and culturally. At Boeing, engineers were king.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Scaling is the holy grail of every new venture – from local to global, from online to brick-and-mortar to partners to mergers and acquisitions, from a private company to a public company, from cash-flow-positive to the next unicorn. Others call it pushing boundaries and rising to the challenges of the market and competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. Entrepreneurs, while partnering with or acquiring a new business, must check for compatibility and strategic fit. Fresh customer base. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. “My invention and prototype works, but I need funding to continue.” Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Hospital trustees also need to be aware of how mergers and acquisitions create potential new risks and vulnerabilities. Others are individuals, partners, and small groups looking to extort companies for financial gain.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Just as healthcare organizations struggled with how to adapt to mergers and meet the evolving needs of their communities, COVID-19 struck with a vengeance forcing changes in governance in healthcare. After partnering with Battelle Research Institute , they reduced COVID-19 test results from 14 days to 6 hours. .

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