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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy).

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Compliance And Risk Management In Today's Business World

Eric Jacobson

This week, Yarin shared with me insights into compliance and risk management, his forthcoming book, and leadership. Compliance and risk management consultants can also work with companies to assist with due diligence in acquisition transactions. Compliance Dave Yarin Fair Warning Leadership Risk Management'

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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How to Know If Joining a Startup Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you. “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. ” Get to know the team.