How to cope with the sadness of a successful exit
Guest Post Almost all startup founders experience a deep and prolonged sadness after selling their company, even when the sale is an outrageous success. Why?
Top 5 exit-deal killers for early-stage companies
Guest Post Early-stage companies that have plenty of engineering talent but insufficient investment capital to keep going continue to find opportunities to monetize their talent pool and early efforts by selling to a cash-rich larger technology company. Here's the top five ways those deals get killed before they begin.
The 10 biggest VC-backed acquisitions of 2012
December 28, 2012 10:30 AM
Sean Ludwig
Editor's Pick While 2012 saw some spectacularly large IPOs like Facebook and Workday, it also had its share of major mergers and acquisitions. Here are the biggest buys of the year.
Get acquired! An idiot’s guide to technology M&A
December 26, 2012 12:06 PM
Christina Farr
Want to get acquired? Shut up, of course you do. Here are a few helpful pointers from an M&A firm and a recent acquiree.
How much can I sell my startup for?
Guest Post If you are a founder that has realized the time is right for you to sell, here's how to estimate what a realistic price might be.
No. 1 U.S. job site Indeed.com acquired by Japan’s Recruit Co.
September 25, 2012 7:27 AM
Sean Ludwig
Leading Japanese HR services business Recruit Co. will acquire top job search site Indeed.com, the companies announced today.
Instagram CEO just made $400 million, or $725,000 per day
April 9, 2012 4:07 PM
Dylan Tweney
Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom just netted $400 million for selling his two-year-old startup to Facebook for $1 billion. That's according to a report by Wired, which cites sources indicating that Systrom holds 40 percent of the company he founded.
Sequoia takes root in Evernote as early investor gets big exit
February 3, 2012 1:35 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
In a head-scratching private-market barter, illustrious venture firm Sequoia Capital has managed to secure an even larger chunk of up-and-coming Silicon Valley startup Evernote.
Russian firm Troika Ventures, Evernote’s first institutional investor, sold its stake in the note-taking and note-sharing …
Super angels defend small valuations and 'dipshit companies'
A bunch of high-profile angel investors defended the idea of keeping valuations low and selling companies early at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today in San Francisco.
TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington, who moderated the panel, had previously criticized some angels for …
Can Microsoft afford losing its Silicon Valley ambassador?
Microsoft has a sprawling campus in tech’s heartland, right by the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. It has thousands of employees in the Bay Area. But the departure of a high-profile evangelist once called the software giant’s “ambassador to Silicon …
