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Successful Acquisition Integration

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. Learn how to successfully integrate the strategies and operations of merged organizations, implement the latest techniques, tools and metrics to improve performance, revitalize acquisitions that are not meeting expectations.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market).

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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Our analytics team is second to none, in our ability to leverage our IP and methods to isolate the effect of those activities, and look at them to figure out how to drive outcomes. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We also just made an acquisition of Jovian over the summer.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

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This is a way to be a player in that space, and work with everybody�the other team owners, the leagues and publishers, the IP holders, and the e-sports community�to create that. Medium and long term, I am excited to see how this involves into a true sport, bigger on every scale and metric than the NBA or NFL. READ MORE>>.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Investors value growth.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Once you create a small list of these queries, then you can start to formalize the ideas into specific metrics that you track daily. User acquisition via each method you use. Aggregate metrics.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

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That might work for $50-100k but less likely for $3m unless you’re a seasoned entrepreneur, known to the VC, have some metrics that work in your favor or have built something the VC believes to be truly unique. So NEVER talk about early exits, quick flips, tuck-in acquisitions, previous interest shown by acquirers, etc.,

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