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dealmaking

Doug Schaer: Turning Sports into Entrepreneurs: What does it take to make sports stars into businessmen? Consultant Doug Schaer knows. The former sports agent has been working with professional athletes like golfer John Daly, helping them see enterprise opportunities and creating ownership for them in the products they endorse.; Tags: Entrepreneurship; Videos 2007-11-08
Richard Rosenblatt: How I Sold MySpace: How do you replicate success? If anyone knows, it's Richard Rosenblatt. In 1999, Rosenblatt sold iMall to Excite@Home for $565 million. Five years later, as CEO of Intermix, he sold its MySpace property to NewsCorp for $580 million. Here, he shares insights on dealmaking, being in the room with Rupert...; Tags: MySpace, iMall, Dealmaking, Rupert Murdoch, Demand Media, Intermix, Richard Rosenblatt, success stories; Videos 2007-09-17

Becoming an Alliance Partner of Choice: Article focuses on strategic alliances and gives few points on how one can become an alliance partner of his choice. As alliances proliferate, a handful of companies have emerged as “partners of choice,” reputedly the best partner in an industry or business sector. These premier alliance-builders tend to reward shareholders...; Tags: Strategy, Accenture Ltd., alliance, strategic alliance, shareholder, benefit, industry; White papers 2001-01-01
Ask.com Layoffs Point to Confused Strategy at IAC: Interactive Corp.'s identity crisis is nearly full blown. Barry Diller, the creator and would-be dismantler of IAC, is turning the company into a textbook example of how to blur a company's brand and how to confuse and and alienate customers, employees and partners. Diller quilted together a bunch of barely-alike...; Tags: Workforce management, Kevin Kelleher, strategy, IAC/InterActive Corp., Barry Diller, Ask.com; Blog posts 2008-03-06