The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will be - fully complete because there are too many countries around the world and too many industries to report (it is highly possible that the Wall Street Journal or Financial Post, for example, has such a list… but it would be thick and unwieldy).
We have included: continue reading...
Ron Conway is the Tiger Woods/Michael Jordan/Wayne Gretzky/Joe Montana of angel investing. Just to make it even more clear: Ron Conyway knows a lot more about entrepreneurs, startups etc. in his pinky than I do in my entire brain.
I’m not sure if he’s lumping the Founders’ Fund into the lower tier VCs, but today Conway comes out gunning… continue reading...
Not long ago - May 20th 2007 to be precise - I enumerated a bunch of stocks that were in play, some of them have now risen in value, a few quite a bit.
Of note, amongst those I own: continue reading...
The search industry has been putting too much of a premium on paid results at the detriment of organic results.
Well, not so fast. The quintet of mass search - Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask.com and AOL - have focused on both organic and paid, but the laggards have not, and the market caps - and market shares - of these is a reflection. This quintet also battles for mass search supremacy, leaving a great opening for niche players. continue reading...
