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A founder’s perspective on what leaders should do starting a year or two out, in rough chronological order.
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Should I take my company public? Why? If so, when and how? In this post, I’ll demystify these questions and provide a framework for answering them.
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What’s notable about recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in software companies (including SaaS) isn’t the number of deals (7), their worth ($8.6B disclosed value), or even the timing (all took place in...
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A look at the market dynamics around the Square IPO and, more broadly, what it can teach us about private vs. public valuations (and investors).
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Dell recently announced an agreement to acquire EMC [NYSE: EMC] — and with it, control of VMware [NYSE: VMW] — in a deal valued at $67 billion at the time of the announcement.
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What’s going on in the public markets? What are all these so-called “unicorns”? What’s going on in venture capital?
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Every meeting a busy founder takes is time away from building the company. So it’s understandable why engaging corporate development groups is believed to be a waste of time, unless you’re selling your company.
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For most companies, fundraising isn’t about $100-million rounds and “unicorns”. It’s often an anxiety-ridden, lonely, frustrating process filled with uncertainty and self doubt. Despite the stories out there, rai...