The Advantages of a “Date-Certain” Mergers and Acquisition Process Over a “Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Process” Every venture capital investor hopes that all of his investments will succeed. The reality is that a large percentage of all venture investments must be shut down. In extreme cases, such a shut down will take the form of [...]
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The Advantages of a “Date-Certain” Mergers and Acquisition Process Over a “Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Process”
Posted in Inetellectual Property, Intellectual capital, Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Venture Capital, Distressed IP, Distressed Intellectual Property, Business models, NVCA, National Venture Capital Association on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
5 stories to read this weekend
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, FaceBook, Intellectual capital, internet, IPO news, Market research, tagged 6Wunderkinder, apple, boic, facebook ipo, Gerbsman Partners, iPad on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from GigaOm. Don’t get mad at me for not finding seven stories for you to read this weekend. I have been busy with some other stuff and as a result I have not been able to spend as much time reading as I normally do. Regardless, here is an abbreviated recommendation list. Hope you [...]
Oracle-HP: How things got this bad
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Intellectual capital, internet, Investments, Java, Market research, Strategy, Sun Microsystems, Technology, tagged Autonomy, boic, Exadata, Gerbsman Partners, hp, Oracle, Oracle OpenWorld, Sun SPARC on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from GigaOm. For many years, Oracle and HP co-existed quite happily. They collaborated on the first Exadata in 2008, for example. Former HP CEOs Carly Fiorina, then Mark Hurd, keynoted at Oracle OpenWorld. HP appeared to have supplanted Sun Microsystems as Oracle’s hardware BFF for a while. Everything was copacetic. Now the two companies are arch-rivals [...]
Companies that would do best without venture capital
Posted in Business models, Economy, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Strategy, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, Investment strategy, VC on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Dan Shapiro. “I just got the following email. Subject: Small taxi company looking to expand Hello, I run a small taxi company outside of Boston Massachusetts. My community has been targeted for casino development and I am looking to expand my business. Could you possibly provide some advice on how to find venture capital? [...]
How Wayfair quietly built a $500M a year web business
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, internet, Investments, IPO news, Market research, Marketing, tagged AllModern, Amazon, Battery ventures, CSN Stores, diapers.com, Great Hill Partners, HarbourVest Partners, IPO news, Joss & Main, Quidsi, Spark Capital, target, Walmart, wayfair on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Article fom GigaOm. In today’s crowded world of e-commerce, it’s not easy to make a name for yourself. New niche sites pop up constantly, while big players such as Amazon are work to undercut the growing competition by spreading into new territories and offering low prices and lots of perks. Meanwhile, the brick-and-mortar retail giants [...]
