Why AcqHire will never be an exit strategy in Asia
Acqhire is a new buzzword as an exit strategy when big tech companies have purchased small companies, primarily as a talent recruitment strategy with a sometimes significant signing bonus. So far, to the best of my knowledge, it only happens in the US. Facebook is probably the most well-known company in such type of takeovers...
Entrepreneurship 2: Executive Summary & Business Plan
Opensourcing my entrepreneurship course notes, the second lecture of my course focus on introducing to the student: (a) the executive summary, (b) the business plan and (c) the elements that construct both documents: technology/service/product description, management team, marketing plan, market segmentation, business strategy (business model), operations plan, financials and exit strategy. This is a series...
Why Exits are Important (as a metric for Start-ups)
My friend, Rama Mamuaya (aka @rampok) from DailySocial.net (the top tech & social media blog in Indonesia) wrote a tweet this morning, “How exactly does one measure a startup’s success? Exits?” I want to emphasize why exits are very important as a whole for the technology scene in Southeast Asia. It is one of the...
