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• 05:36 PM Monday, June 16, 2008
  Jun 16 Mon

  How to Design Your Startup for Acquisition

  In my inbox today appeared SandHill' s newsletter with an interesting post by Jon B. Fisher, who recently sold his startup, Bharosa, to Oracle. Selling his startup to Oracle was his plan from Day One. He covers the considerations a startup entrepreneur Read More...
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• 02:58 AM Friday, May 30, 2008
  May 30 Fri

  Tracking Web & Technology Acquisitions

  I recently found a neat blog on the technology acquisitions for 2007 . Steve Nielsen of Partner Up combed many sources to compile this comprehensive list, complete with blog, media and press coverage. Steve's Q1 2008 list is here. This list includes 3 Read More...
  Filed under: Acquisitions

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• 12:10 PM Wednesday, December 05, 2007
  Dec 05 Wed

  The Value of the Facebook Deal

  John Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote an article yesterday about Bruce Jaffe's talk the Global Red Herring conference in Seattle. Bruce is the Corp VP for Corporate Development at Microsoft. There was some interesting thoughts about the value Read More...
  Filed under: Acquisitions, Advertising

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• 02:04 AM Thursday, November 29, 2007
  Nov 29 Thu

  Microsoft’s Appetite for Acquisitions

  This week, VC Taskforce organized a panel: What Will Microsoft Acquire Next? Mark Wolfram from Microsoft venture integration team spoke, along with Mark Lazar, EIR at Redpoint, and Henry Wong, lead investor and board member of adECN, which was sold to Read More...
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• 11:11 PM Sunday, August 05, 2007
  Aug 05 Sun

  Be Honest and Stay Small to Get Acquired

  At the AlwaysOn Stanford conference last Thursday, five "Big Brands" discussed their acquisition strategies – when they acquire vs. build, types of companies they look for, what makes deals fail. One speaker was Dan'l Lewin, CVP for our group. The acquisition Read More...
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