Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2013
He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo!
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. How about mergers and acquisitions? The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. There are just not buyers out there. READ MORE>>.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. -A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Competitors: Gowalla. Total raised: $10.5mm.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! This happens at acquisition time, too.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! I never worked at Yahoo! But his role as “Chief Yahoo!&# But his tenure as CEO (and frankly the whole culture of Yahoo!
Frank Addante
MAY 3, 2006
▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. It was an Internet search engine and directory "dot-com" (competitor to Yahoo!, we didnt even know Yahoo! ► March (2) 4.
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