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mergers & acquisitions and venture capital

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2007: The Year of Enterprise M&A
    +    First week of the new year, and we have a nice-sized ($830M) acquisition of IronPort Systems by Cisco. Heres a link to the press release.All Hail The Return Of The Enterprise M&A Market!OK. So, maybe Im a bit premature with my celebration& But, I dont think so.IronPort got...
Tags: General, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Venture capital, Ironport Systems Inc., M&A
Blog posts 2007-01-04
@140Conf: Conway, Lindzon And Sabet: Talk Twitter's Valuation And Future Investments
“I think Twitter is worth more than a billion dollars ...” So says Ron Conway. Conway, Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet and StockTwits backer Howard Lindzon dug into Twitter’s sky-high valuation during the 140Conf today. They also offered up predictions for where we’ll see the next wave of Twitter-related investments...
Tags: CoTweet Inc., Valuation, Twitter Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Sales Channel, Investment, Sales Force Management, Finance, Business Operations, Sales, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-10-27
Buy, Build And Improve
The "rolling up" of small companies into a larger entity through acquisitions is changing the face of entire industries. For investors, profiting from service-industry roll-ups means valuing companies and structuring transactions according to unique rules. Article discusses a new investment model, venture capital and key element of the roll-ups. Read...
Tags: Penton Media Inc., Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations
White papers 1999-05-01
Hurt By Hard Times, Financial Services Firms Seek New Directions
The article says that past decade has been a tumultuous one for investors and for the financial services industry. The last half of the 1990s seemed, in many ways, the best of times. A soaring stock market created vast amounts of wealth and funded the startup of thousands of new...
Tags: Better Management.com, Finance, Financial, Financial Planning, Financial Service, Financial Services, Financing Startups, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Investment, IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital
White papers 2003-01-01
The Effects of Direct and Indirect Foreign Venture Capital Ties on Exit Market Selection and Exit Modes
This paper examines cross-border M&A and foreign IPOs as exit routes for venture capitalists. Although an M&A or IPO may be driven by the venture capitalist's interest to exit from an investment, the selection and functioning of exit market has consequences also on the venture. Increased exit opportunities increase the...
Tags: M&A, Helsinki University, Venture Capital, IPO, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services
White papers 2005-10-23
Try Before They Buy: Corporate Venture Capital and the Acquisition of Technology Start-Ups
Established firms have long invested in start-ups at early stages of their development, in part to gain access to new technologies and to identify potential acquisition targets. Despite the importance of these strategic motives for Corporate Venture Capital CVC, prior studies have not explored the effectiveness of this approach relative...
Tags: Venture Capital, Acquisition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
White papers 2004-11-01
IPOs, Acquisitions And The Use Of Convertible Securities In Venture Capital
This paper provides a new explanation for the use of convertible securities in venture capital, which is based on the trade-off between acquisition and IPOs. A key property of convertible preferred equity is that it allocates different cash flow rights, depending on whether exit occurs by acquisition or IPO (Initial...
Tags: Security, Acquisition, IPO, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2004-01-01
Five Sector Deal Reports Bundle: "Paid Access $399"
Understand the key trends, spot hot new start ups and track the movements of the big players in digital media through the five most influential sectors in Q1. This package includes separate reports detailing all Merger & Acquisition and Venture Capital deals in: advertising; social media; search; broadcasters & channels;...
Tags: Microsoft Access, MarketClusters, StrategyEye, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2008-01-01
Broadcasters & Channels: "Paid Access $299"
What did Brian May bid for and lose? What's the experts' verdict on News Corp's role in Europe's pay TV market? Inform your strategic development with a full and detailed report on all Merger & Acquisition, Venture Capital and Partnership deals in the Broadcasters and Channels sector for Q2 2008....
Tags: Microsoft Access, Broadcaster, MarketClusters, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Business Structures, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2008-04-01
Six Sector Deal Reports Bundle: ^Paid Access $1199^
Understand the key trends, spot hot new start ups and track the movements of the big players in digital media through the five most influential sectors in Q2. This package includes separate reports detailing all Merger & Acquisition and Venture Capital deals in advertising, Social Media, Search, Broadcasters & Channels...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Sector, MarketClusters, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2008-04-01
StrategyEye Quarterly Dealflow Report - Solar Power, Q3 2008: "Paid Access $799"
StrategyEye's industry analysts track dealflow and innovation right across the Cleantech sector. This Q3 2008 Dealflow Report focuses on developments in the Solar subsector. Highlights this quarter include: The race to commercialisation in the thin-film market; Corporate efforts to regain ground in solar manufacturing; Entry of electronics powerhouse, South Korea,...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Solar Energy, Electronics, MarketClusters, StrategyEye, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Finance, Financing Startups, Investment
White papers 2008-10-14
StrategyEye Quarterly Dealflow Report - Pollution Management, Q3 2008: "Paid Access $499"
StrategyEye's industry analysts track dealflow and innovation right across the Cleantech sector. This Q3 2008 Dealflow Report focuses on developments in the Pollution Management subsector. Highlights this quarter include: Greater government financing for carbon capture projects; Increased water desalination development outside the Middle East; New technologies to transform waste into...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Pollution, MarketClusters, StrategyEye, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Financing Startups, Investment
White papers 2008-10-14
StrategyEye Quarterly Dealflow Report - Energy & Resource Efficiency, Q3 2008: "Paid Access $499"
StrategyEye's industry analysts track dealflow and innovation right across the Cleantech sector. This Q3 2008 Dealflow Report focuses on developments in the Energy & Resource Efficiency subsector. Highlights this quarter include: US utilities continue transition to smart grid; Investment and development into energy efficiency in IT; Company Feature: EnOcean, developer...
Tags: Microsoft Access, MarketClusters, StrategyEye, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Finance, Financing Startups, Investment
White papers 2008-10-14
StrategyEye Quarterly Dealflow Report - Search, Q3 2008: "Paid Access $799"
StrategyEye's industry analysts track dealflow and innovation right across the Digital Media sector. This Q3 2008 Dealflow Report focuses on the fast moving Search market. Highlights this quarter include: Developments between Yahoo! and Microsoft and what to expect next; Increasing investment into emerging semantic search technologies; Maturing of Russia's search...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Quarter, MarketClusters, StrategyEye, Business Structures, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2008-09-30
Huffington Post Closes $25 Million Third Round; Plans Include 'Focused Acquisitions'
After weeks of denials and "no comments," political blog The Huffington Post has closed a $25 million third round funding from Oak Investment Partners, the company said in an emailed press release this morning. The company said it planned to use the proceeds to support general growth efforts and...
Tags: Acquisition, Round, Advertisement, Softbank Corp., HuffPo, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Communications, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Social Media, VC+M&A, Venture Capital, David Kaplan
External links 2008-12-01
Rustic Canyon Sells Part of Its Portfolio To Give Liquidity To Chandler Family, Its LP
A crazy but true story, along with a strange co-incidence: Rustic Canyon RC, one of the largest VC firms in Southern California and invested in a bunch of digital media companies, has sold off a part of its portfolio to Saints Capital, a San Francisco-based VC firm which specializes...
Tags: Venture-capital Company, Tribune Co., Liquidity, Rustic Canyon, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Investment, Business Operations, VC+M&A, Rafat Ali
External links 2008-12-09
Turner Hives Off Its Online Sports Servcie Provider PlayOn; New Company Gets Funding
Turner, part of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), which has surprisingly been scaling back some of its original online efforts, has now sold off its online sports site services provider PlayOn Sports to a new Atlanta-based company called 2080 Media. The company is focused on production and distribution of broadband...
Tags: On-demand, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Cloud Computing, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Companies, Time Warner, Turner, Entertainment, Sports, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Rafat Ali, Time Warner Inc.
External links 2008-12-10
ShowClix Raises A First Round For Online Ticketing
ShowClix, a two-year-old startup trying to challenge Ticketmaster’s dominance of the online ticketing industry, has raised a first round of funding from Pittsburgh Equity Partners. ShowClix is not disclosing how much it raised, but an SEC filing indicates the company brought in $570,000 of an $850,000 round. In the...
Tags: Round, Ticketmaster Corp., ShowClix, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Entertainment, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-08-20
Lead Generation Firm Inadco Raises $5 Million; Spends $3 Million Of It On Acquisition
Online lead generation firm Inadco raised $5 million worth of funding, according to an SEC filing. The company didn’t respond to our request for details on who the full investment came from—but another filing reveals that Inadco likely used over $3.3 million worth of the new money to acquire...
Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, Inadco, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-25
MLG Adds $3.5 Million Funding, Launches Doritos-Backed Gaming "Combine"
Pro gaming league Major League Gaming MLG raised an additional $3.5 million in funding—and it likely used some of the money to acquire gameplay data firm Agora Games—according to an SEC filing. We’ve put in a request for clarification. This brings MLG’s total raise to $46 million, including a...
Tags: Data Company, MLG, Snack-maker, Games, Personal Technology, Advertising, Entertainment, Gaming, Sports, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-31
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