Acquisition used in a sentence

Acquisition in a sentence as a noun

I recently went through an acquisition where we transitioned from Google Apps to the Microsoft suite. I do not share your love of Microsoft's suite.

Is she comfortable with the fact that it was primarily an IP acquisition?

In my experience it's very rare for employees with vested stock to get ripped off in an acquisition. Usually the amounts involved are so small that it would not be worth the bad publicity.

"And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition." I'm guessing that pretty much sums up the reaction of everyone who backed the initial kickstarter.

The opening line follows the boilerplate trend of acquisition posts. Being acqui-hired is not something that you should be celebrating with your users...

This is the real shame in the Oculus acquisition. If Oculus had been able to give away just 10% equity, every single Kickstarter backer would be $20,000 richer today.

Needless to say, that once the Microsoft acquisition failed and the layoffs started happening, most of us were out of there. On top of that, there was very much a prima donna attitude around Yahoo, with a great deal of self-entitlement.

In a small way, every talent acquisition poisons the well for future, bootstrapped startups. It erodes the confidence of users and potential customers.

Trevor graduated at about the same time the acquisition closed, so in the course of 4 days he went from impecunious grad student to millionaire PhD. In 1998, I had made an effort to do the whole "once a day, learn a random new word from the dictionary". I did that for exactly one day.

Yeah, motorola products have completely gone down the toilet after that acquisition. They were so great before with fast updates and a wonderful skin of android, and now they're either non-innovative or way too overpriced for the value.

Out of the blue some never-heard-of before company that does the same thing you do starts to hit your customers with a price point that you simply can not beat because they are able to 'burn baby burn' or maybe even give away that identical product for free because they're racing for an acquisition before the money runs out. That's real trouble.

The antidote is never to allow acquisition talks to be the main thing you're focusing on. We advise startups who get approached by acquirers to treat it as a background process, and not to take things seriously until the very last stage. If acquisition discussions are just a side show, you can easily terminate them if anything goes wrong.

It's a "breakup fee" negotiated by Instagram in the event that the acquisition falls through. The purpose of a breakup fee is to compensate the target for costs associated with the failed acquisition and various other losses or expenses. Mostly however, a breakup fee compensates the target for business oppportunities not pursued while the acquisition was being attempted because of the acquisition.

Having your ducks in a row as much as possible can make a huge difference in the complexity, risk, and overall stress of doing a sale/acquisition. I don't mean Day 1, of course, but once you're starting to have conversations around acquisitions, it's really helpful to make sure your books are clean, that you have clearly documented your software stack, all of the third-party code you use and licenses, all of the contracts and MSAs you might have signed iwth your customers, employment agreements with contractors, and so on.

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Yeah, I'm not suggesting that everyone should optimize right out of the gate for acquisition, I even thought about making a more detailed set of points on that, but decided it was overkill. I think it's like this: - There's a base level of prep for acquisition that just falls under the category of "good operational cadence for a company". This is the basic level of keeping the books clean, organizing your papers, etc. - Then there's a level of prep that it makes sense to do when you think you are getting close to a term sheet, or planning to start to actively seek acquisition. This is the much more detailed indexing of contracts, covenants, tracking down old shareholders, etc. Hopefully if you did the above point, this is made easier, since you're at least storing everything in one place - Then in the DD phase, there's going to be requests that you just can't prepare for, because they're out of left-field. If you've done #1 and #2, you can invest most of your efforts on those. But to your point: > If a deal is worth doing, it's probably not going to live or die based on how many tens of thousands of dollars you can whittle off closing costs. It's almost never a matter of closing costs. It's a matter of momentum and risk. Yes, if a company is 100% convinced that they absolutely must have your technology/customers/IP/whatever, they'll overlook many many flaws. But, if you go into the due diligence process and things are overly messy, it throws up red flags and creates delays, neither of which are in the entrepreneurs favor. The DD folks and legal counsel for the acquirer are there to be a voice of reason and caution - the messier things are, the more likely they are to start cautioning the acquirer. Typically, the corp dev guys are raring at the bit, since this is what they're there to do. Legal is meant to act as the countervailing weight to that. Risk is unlikely to acquisition the deal outright, but it could delay things and create uncertainty in the acquirer. All of a sudden they start talking about putting an extra 10-15% in escrow, or doing an earn-out instead of a straight acquisition, as a hedge.

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> And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition. > Don’t get me wrong, VR is not bad for social. He is right - "social", especially in the way Facebook is doing it at the moment, is terrible for VR. Terrible for any technology that has such an incredible potential to change the world. This acquisition makes one thing very clear: VR does not need social.

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