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How companies use M&A Acquisitions as strategy to compete and grow
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Target Corp. agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. by speeding the rollo...
"Most big companies don’t innovate at a large scale. It’s normal. You have two perfectly valid alternatives for responding to market shifts: You can acq...
Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve met with a series of entrepreneurs that turned down pretty attractive acquisition offers, relatively early in their l...
Crunchbase: "Let’s say you randomly selected 1000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A? Of ...
Wall Street Journal, 2017: “Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens, has agreed to be acquired by Chinese news a...
Strategic factors are often more important than purely financial ones.
Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt, an o...
Usually, when a hot startup gets acquired by an even hotter one, the industry cheers. But reactions to this month’s announcement that MissonU has been ...
There are many reasons to found a startup. There are many reasons to work at a startup. But there’s only one reason your company got funded — liquidity....
Chances are you've heard of Google. You're likely a contributor to one of the 3.5 billion search queries the website processes daily. But unless you’re a..
The company uses image recognition software to find works of art that match users’ tastes
Google has just announced that it’s buying wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. The deal should bolster Google’s flagging efforts in wearable devic...
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bloomberg.com
Target to Buy Shipt for $550 Million in Challenge to Amazon - Bloomberg
Target Corp. agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. by speeding the rollo...
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medium.com/@steve.yegge
Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation | Medium
"Most big companies don’t innovate at a large scale. It’s normal. You have two perfectly valid alternatives for responding to market shifts: You can acq...
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saastr.com
Acquisitions -- If You Do Sell, Try to Make Sure It's At a Local Maximum – SaaStr
Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve met with a series of entrepreneurs that turned down pretty attractive acquisition offers, relatively early in their l...
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about.crunchbase.com
Here’s How Likely Your Startup Is To Get Acquired At Any Stage | Crunchbase
Crunchbase: "Let’s say you randomly selected 1000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A? Of ...
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wsj.com
Lip-Syncing App Musical.ly Is Acquired for as Much as $1 Billion
Wall Street Journal, 2017: “Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens, has agreed to be acquired by Chinese news a...
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hbr.org
Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub - Harvard
Strategic factors are often more important than purely financial ones.
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techcrunch.com
Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M | TechCrunch
Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt, an o...
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edsurge.com
Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork | ...
Usually, when a hot startup gets acquired by an even hotter one, the industry cheers. But reactions to this month’s announcement that MissonU has been ...
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medium.com
How to Build a Startup that Gets Acquired – Startup Grind – Medium
There are many reasons to found a startup. There are many reasons to work at a startup. But there’s only one reason your company got funded — liquidity....
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techcrunch.com
A peek inside Alphabet’s investing universe | TechCrunch
Chances are you've heard of Google. You're likely a contributor to one of the 3.5 billion search queries the website processes daily. But unless you’re a..
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theartnewspaper.com
Sotheby’s acquires tech startup Thread Genius | The Art Newspaper
The company uses image recognition software to find works of art that match users’ tastes
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theverge.com
Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion - The Verge
Google has just announced that it’s buying wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. The deal should bolster Google’s flagging efforts in wearable devic...
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