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        <title><![CDATA[European M&A is Hot]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:02:20 GMT</pubDate>
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From my viewpoint in Amsterdam, European software M&A is hitting record levels. Corum has announced three transactions so far this year and several more are in the works. What’s]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 10 worst things you can do when selling your software company (Part 8 of 10)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:35:53 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Take your eye off the ball.

Focus on running your core business even during the M&A process. Letting business performance suffer for lack of management focus during the M&A]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Don’t Miss WFS NYC on June 5]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:06:49 GMT</pubDate>
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We’ve been a platinum sponsor of the World Financial Symposiums for nearly a decade, and next month, we are proud to be sponsoring the New York Growth and Exit Strategies]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 10 worst things you can do when selling your software company (Part 7 of 10)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:45:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Let your ego run wild.

At its core, negotiating is adversarial. Successful outcome requires the parties to focus on the important business issues and to know when their ego needs]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 10 worst things you can do when selling your software company (Part 6 of 10)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 10:19:57 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Talk too much.

Instead, listen as much as you talk. Ask the buyer questions about why they are interested in your company and how you fit with their future strategy. You’ll gain]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Focus on: Cisco]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:11:43 GMT</pubDate>
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We’ve seen a big pickup in activity in Europe since the beginning of the year, and Cisco continues to lead the trend in picking up small, innovative companies. 

 



 

Cisco]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[London WFS Recap]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:29:57 GMT</pubDate>
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Last week, World Financial Symposiums' “Growth & Exit Strategies for Software and IT Companies” conference was held in London and celebrated its 10th anniversary. As Corum is]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing – Card Decks]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:00:41 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Q1 Global Tech M&A Report]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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Boosted by record-setting public market performance and buyer cash hordes, the Q1 2013 Tech M&A market has been hotter than any time since 2000. Tomorrow, find out how your]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cisco Continues its 2013 Acquisition Pace]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:36:12 GMT</pubDate>
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I am pleased to announce that our client, SolveDirect, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Cisco.

 

 

 

Headquartered in Vienna, Austria with offices in Silicon]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How Big is Big Data?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:33:09 GMT</pubDate>
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Every 48 hours, humanity generates the amount of data created from the dawn of civilization until 2003, and that rate is accelerating. New tools are needed to manage this "Big]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 10 worst things you can do when selling your software company (Part 5 of 10)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:17:40 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Number 5:  Have unrealistic value expectations.

Grossly unrealistic price expectations will undermine your credibility. Greed is the single most common deal killer. Use]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SAP's Big Data Move ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:59:28 GMT</pubDate>
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In a timely and strategic acquisition, SAP purchased SmartOps, a provider of inventory and service-level optimization solutions slated to fit into supply chain management.

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        <title><![CDATA[Smart Phones - To The End Of The Earth!]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:06:27 GMT</pubDate>
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I just got back from Africa. It was life changing to see the migration of nearly two million wildebeests and zebra, with a surrounding cast of gazelles, impalas, stenboks,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mobile Spotlight Report              ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:47:27 GMT</pubDate>
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I keep hearing that we’re in the middle of a mobile evolution, but what I see is really the continual presence of the normal, annual tech revolution, which drives all sectors,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Private Equity Panel Recap ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:56:23 GMT</pubDate>
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The main event of our February webinar was an all-star private equity panel with representatives from ACCEL KKR, The Carlyle Group, and Riverside Company. Here are a few of the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[KC Revisited]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:36:43 GMT</pubDate>
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I spoke at a previous webinar about how the presence of Google’s super-high-speed internet experiment in Kansas City is fueling change in the Midwest. As a follow-up, I can say]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gartner Analyst Day - Big Data Analytics]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:20:25 GMT</pubDate>
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I was invited to a Gartner Analyst Day last week. As you’d expect from Gartner, it was chock full of high quality material. The theme, “hunting and harvesting business]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dow’s Record Close – M&A Market Soaring ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
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With the Dow’s March 5 closing at 14,254, the highest ever, the Tech M&A market continues its own bullish activity with over 250 deals in the past month including e-commerce]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Field Report Overview]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:42:31 GMT</pubDate>
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In our monthly webinars, we typically get a field report from at least one Corum representative, looking at a specific market segment, deal, region, etc. In February we heard]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mobile Spotlight Report              ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:27:55 GMT</pubDate>
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I keep hearing that we’re in the middle of a mobile evolution, but what I see is really the continual presence of the normal, annual tech revolution, which drives all sectors,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Social Spotlight Report]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:52:20 GMT</pubDate>
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Social is and will remain an important topic in tech and tech M&A. We covered it briefly in our January webinar, and an overview of that information is below. Keep an eye out]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Electric Reliability - Building a Smarter Network ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:43:32 GMT</pubDate>
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The Super Bowl blackout was traced to an electrical relay device recently installed to protect the stadium in the event of a cable failure. The relay device triggered, signaling]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SaaS Spotlight Report]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:34:10 GMT</pubDate>
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As part of our first webinar of the year, a number of us here at Corum explored specific industries, their significance, and what we can expect from them in the coming year. I]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gaming Spotlight Report]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:46:34 GMT</pubDate>
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Two factors are going to push the gaming sector this year: Mobile, which includes tablet gaming, and online casino gaming. Both these factors drove gaming in 2012, and they look]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[7 Habits of High Effective Sellers, Habit #2: Begin with the End in Mind]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:28:35 GMT</pubDate>
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In Dr. Covey’s book, the idea behind Habit #2 was to self-discover and clarify our important character values and life goals. He encouraged us to be disciplined around the “end”]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Growth & Exits in Geekwire]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:28:10 GMT</pubDate>
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This week the World Financial Symposiums “Growth & Exit Strategies for Software & IT Companies” conference was held here in Seattle. Corum is the platinum sponsor of this event,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Living with the Jetsons]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:10:20 GMT</pubDate>
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We are living in our own version of The Jetson’s - The New Mobile Society, driven by the convergence of form and functionality.

 

Form: As Apple has learned the hard way,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Trends that Define M&A]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:02:21 GMT</pubDate>
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When we do webinars that wrap up one year and look forward to the next, they always include a component of looking at the trends that have carried M&A and whether we expect]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google Fiber Report]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:46:20 GMT</pubDate>
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Is your computer speeding, Internet going too fast?

….You must be in Kansas…or Missouri!

 

Right here in Corum Kansas City, we spent some time looking into the incredible]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:50:42 GMT</pubDate>
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Let me finish up our top six transaction stories from 2012, as chosen by the World Technology Council, Corum’s 400-person advisory body. I’m only including some of the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:15:13 GMT</pubDate>
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We’re gearing up for our annual LIVE Broadcast - Corum’s annual Global Tech M&A Review & Predictions, scheduled for January 17, 1:00pm (New York), register here. Corum Group]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Langara Experience]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:52:27 GMT</pubDate>
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For nearly 30 years, Corum has built a tradition of successful partnerships with technology entrepreneurs to guide them through the process of selling up and selling out. Along]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Forecast 2013: Global Tech M&A Review & Predictions, January 17]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:26:04 GMT</pubDate>
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Corum Group has been holding educational events for over 25 years as a key part of our outreach to software executives worldwide. We are very much looking forward to our largest]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing – Open house at a new installation]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:21:14 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Healthcare Market Spotlight]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:33:58 GMT</pubDate>
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to moderate a World Financial Symposiums Market Spotlight webcast about healthcare technology. The healthcare market is being driven by]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:02:38 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Accept the first offer you get.

As a dealmaker I frequently receive calls from sellers seeking advice who have been approached by a buyer or investor group.  After the elation]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 10 worst things you can do when selling your software company (Part 3 of 10)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:14:15 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Broadcast the news to your staff that you’re considering selling the business.   

Better to wait until the transaction is well in hand, if not completed. Announcing too early can]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Growing pains in e-commerce]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:00:44 GMT</pubDate>
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Growing a start-up to a full scale business involves strategy, risk and guts. Over the last 24 months it has been very exciting to see a new crop of e-commerce sites evolve from]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[7 Habits of Highly Effective Sellers      ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:14:25 GMT</pubDate>
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Since they were penned and published in 1989 by Dr. Stephen Covey and his research team, I’ve always been a believer that the original 7 Habits of Highly Effective People formed]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:45:32 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

2012 was one of the best years ever for private sellers in tech. 2013 will be even better. The reasons are many. Here are 5:

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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:03:48 GMT</pubDate>
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Okay, the election is over, so let’s get back to business already. What can we expect from the new, old Obama administration as it leads the country through economic recovery]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Energy & Cleantech Market Spotlight Webcast]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:34:04 GMT</pubDate>
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Major things are afoot in the energy and cleantech software markets. In 2020, the US is projected to challenge Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest petroleum producer.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gifting before the Cliff!]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:21:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The fiscal cliff is coming and it affects many of our clients who recently sold and other business owners. The window to give away up to $5 million of your estate ($10 million]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:31:45 GMT</pubDate>
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I was just catching up on current events regarding the ongoing, and at this point, never-ending Euro-debt Crisis, and discovered this totally cool, interactive timeline giving]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:45:27 GMT</pubDate>
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Tomorrow, we’re holding a Merge Briefing conference in Durham, NC, and yesterday CED, the Southeast’s largest entrepreneurial support organization, interviewed Corum VP Jeff]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 08:31:05 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["Hey, Dad, my Apple shares are down like $100 each. What's going on?" my 16-year-old son asked me last week. My response was to remind him that only a few weeks earlier, when he]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Election Politics and Tech M&A Special Coverage]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:08:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[With the US election just a week away, the conversation around the office has turned to what impact a second Obama term or a Romney presidency, and a new Congress, could have on]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:40:51 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Software Defined Networking: New frontiers in virtualization of the datacenter ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:16:41 GMT</pubDate>
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Computer networking is on the verge of some monumental change. It’s called Software Defined Networking, or “SDN” and it’s heralded to be the next “optimization battleground” in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:55:43 GMT</pubDate>
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I will be in India later this month to host Corum’s first Tech Merge Briefing in the world’s IT back office. The executive briefing will take place in Bangalore on Friday]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[On the anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:10:22 GMT</pubDate>
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Today is the anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death, and it’s worth a visit to Apple.com to see the commemorative video there. How much more drab our world would be without his work,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:13:41 GMT</pubDate>
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The Rice Alliance held its Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum last week. The organizer, Rice University, through its Rice Alliance for Technology and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Technology addiction]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:14:47 GMT</pubDate>
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With our constant dependence on technology, losing connectivity can be a disaster. It’s rare that people leave home or work without their cell phones or some access to the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Geo-Consolidation]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:55:44 GMT</pubDate>
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In August, I participated in “Where is Everywhere,” a market spotlight webcast from World Financial Symposiums, where I examined the significant consolidation in the overall]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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Yesterday’s Tech M&A Monthly webcast was one of our best ever. Our new 30-minute format is shorter, but no less rich in invaluable news and information for tech CEOs.

 



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        <title><![CDATA[The significance of India-based Infosys’ acquisition of Swiss-based Lodestone]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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The announcement of Infosys‘ acquisition of the Swiss SAP integrator, Lodestone, is welcome news to me. For over a decade, I have been monitoring Asian buyers - in particular]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 10 worst things you can do when selling your software company (Part 2 of 10)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:42:40 GMT</pubDate>
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Broadcast the news to your staff that you’re considering selling the business.

 



 

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         <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tech M&A - 1985 vs. 2012]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:18:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Corum was founded in 1985 when the tech world as we know it was just cooling.  M&A was done with a limited cast of buyers, an alternative to going public, which most firms hoped]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Disruptive pricing and delivery models]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:27:46 GMT</pubDate>
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I was struck by a recent article by 451 Group Analyst, David Horrigan. The opening read like this: “DATAssimilate's PowerSearch brings PayPal-palatable pricing to e-discovery.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SaaS surges in the rising Software M&A swell]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After 2 quarters into 2012, we’ve tracked over 230 SaaS deals, with a market value of $17.5 B where terms were announced, with a median deal value of $54 M. And, there’s little]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Latin America: The Next Frontier]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:32:07 GMT</pubDate>
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In our half yearly webinar, I touched on a few trends becoming evident in Latin America. The first half of 2012 is at an inflection point for deal activity in Latin America.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:07:19 GMT</pubDate>
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Justin Kern of Information Management picked up on one of the key themes of our Tech M&A Mid-Year Report:

 



 

In a review of tech industry trends and acquisitions over]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:59:22 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Corum Group International S.á.r.l, the global leader in M&A services for software and information technology companies worldwide, announced the appointment of Jon Scott, Senior]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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At Financier Worldwide, Nat Burgess took part in an online roundtable about current trends in mergers and acquisitions in the tech sector:

 



 

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         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:11:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We reviewed international deals extensively in our June webinar, and delivered a special report on what’s happening in Europe. We were able to look at several of our own deals,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:33:25 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[There's a new way to get the news you need to know about today's tech M&A market: introducing the Tech M&A Podcast. Hear special reports, panel discussions, interviews and more,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:40:19 GMT</pubDate>
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Successful M&A events require planning and careful execution. There are plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs to stub their toes (sometimes disastrously) on the way to the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:31:14 GMT</pubDate>
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Apple and Microsoft both jumped into the mobile payments market last week, following Google, countless startups, most mobile network operators, many banks, and several financial]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:52:47 GMT</pubDate>
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I had the pleasure of chairing a World Financial Symposiums event in Europe on M&A, spotlighting the Cloud. We particularly discussed the three groups of offerings – Software as]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:11:13 GMT</pubDate>
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I just wrapped up a conversation regarding a client with a corporate development officer of a large, public company. It was my first conversation with this guy and our first]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:15:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[With much fanfare this week, Steve Ballmer showed off Microsoft’s response to the iPad, the Surface.   It’s still early to assess this product, as technical details are sketchy]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:05:48 GMT</pubDate>
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To no surprise, successfully timing markets is extremely difficult, especially when attempting to tie market indicators to the direction of Tech M&A. Over the last few months,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:52:23 GMT</pubDate>
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Dell has adapted its business approach substantially over the past few years. They have consistently been a top 10 buyer of tech firms; however, we’re currently witnessing a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:04:39 GMT</pubDate>
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There is a feeding frenzy at the moment in social and mobile gaming. M&A is at an all-time high in this space, just as we predicted in our Annual Forecast Webinar back in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:20:17 GMT</pubDate>
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At Corum, we believe in the power of competition and the open market. What is a business worth? ‘What a willing buyer will pay a willing seller’ is the classic answer. But,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:50:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

One of the key technologies that made the mobile & tablet revolutions possible wasn’t software or electronics—it was Corning’s tough, nigh-unscratchable “Gorilla Glass”. Without]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cyber Attacks, Energy Security and Spearfishing]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:15:19 GMT</pubDate>
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It been reported that sometime in March, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began issuing "amber" alerts that warned of a cyber-intrusion campaign aimed at the natural gas]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:46:27 GMT</pubDate>
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Congratulations to our client Zeacom, acquired today by Enghouse (TSE ESL.TO) in Toronto.  Zeacom’s management weathered the telephony storms of the last two decades while]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 16:43:39 GMT</pubDate>
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Yesterday ANSYS (NYSE: ANSS) announced that they had signed a definitive agreement to purchase our client, Esterel, for euro 42 million, subject to certain working capital]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Unintended consequences: Europe's shift to the left]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 08:49:22 GMT</pubDate>
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A French client recently asked me to guide the buyer of his company toward cash retention bonuses rather than options.  I asked him why.  He said that options are viewed as "a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
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Corum recently hosted a sellers' panel featuring individuals who sold their healthcare companies. These CEOs/founders shared insights learned in the selling process - much of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:31:39 GMT</pubDate>
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During our monthly webinar in May, I highlighted a hot sector that is taking off in Europe, with the first shoots popping up in the US. In April, LivingSocial acquired Onosys, a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:53:12 GMT</pubDate>
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I moderated the M&A panel for the Angel Capital Association Northwest Regional Meeting, which attracted about a hundred investors from Washington, Idaho, Oregon and British]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:49:01 GMT</pubDate>
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Brokers at Morgan Stanley and the other underwriters of the Facebook IPO didn't realize how many Facebook friends they had until they were allocated shares for individual]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Everything is going GEO]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:48:18 GMT</pubDate>
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As discussed in the Corum’s May Tech M&A Webinar, we share the optimism the M&A markets have recently demonstrated for technologies variously named as GIS, GPS, LBS – all]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:41:02 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I was recently invited to attend the Energy Technology Investor Forum in Houston as an advisor to hear the investor pitches from young technology companies seeking investment]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:18:49 GMT</pubDate>
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This is one of the best tech conferences on the planet, and they outdid themselves this year by tying up the end users with the data center. End users, as in "Farmville" addicts]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:04:53 GMT</pubDate>
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My Interop coverage is interrupted to bring you this note.  Las Vegas service workers will tell you that tech conference attendees arrive with "one white shirt and one]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:45:41 GMT</pubDate>
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I said it before and the trend continues.  More and more employees, including executives, are demanding to leverage their personal mobile devices in more and more ways.  The]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:53:34 GMT</pubDate>
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Last month Apple declared a dividend and a buyback package, but it’s actually a positive indicator for tech M&A at all but the highest levels, since it takes several]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:34:42 GMT</pubDate>
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The sales of data security technologies will continue to grow rapidly.  There is no other option.  Let’s face it, the current standards in place through periodic tests and]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:05:47 GMT</pubDate>
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As part of our software M&A engagements, we dedicate significant effort to gathering information on various market sectors, emerging technologies, and valuation trends as well]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is the JOBS Act important to Tech M&A?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:02:50 GMT</pubDate>
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A few comments on the recently passed JOBS Act.  This is a very powerful piece of legislation almost unanimously passed by Congress and BOTH sides of the aisle and signed by the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:41:25 GMT</pubDate>
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First generation web companies like AOL and Yahoo have had many missteps in keeping pace with the 2nd generation companies. Now they are turning to the assets that haven’t lost]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Time to retest the market?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:17:39 GMT</pubDate>
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During the recession, M&A slowed, with many firms not getting the offers they had hoped for.  But things are different now. With a resurgent economy, tech stocks up, global]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:29:04 GMT</pubDate>
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As I mentioned in my last blog, the RSA show in San Francisco highlighted some interesting trends. It seems that more enterprises are realizing that the lines between physical]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Casino Wars]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Over the last three months, we’ve seen video game and casino companies getting quite serious about online casino games. Zynga leads the pack with Zynga Poker at more than 30]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:28:15 GMT</pubDate>
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I attended the annual RSA conference in San Francisco in late February.  It’s always an interesting event.  This year I heard more talk around the issue of mobile application]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:12:02 GMT</pubDate>
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As Corum’s relatively new Conference Director, I’ve already had the opportunity to help with planning and promotion for several Corum conferences across the country. I recently]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:04:02 GMT</pubDate>
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I am on my way back from WorldHostingDays that just took place in Germany. The event is well run with over a hundred exhibitors and, as per the organizers, attended by nearly]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:03:04 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The momentum is there - 2012 is shaping up to be the best year in a decade for Tech M&A. We feel it every week in our conferences which are generating record attendance. In the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:37:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Corum has just run an M&A update in London. There was double the ‘normal’ number of registrants. In fact, it has been a good M&A market for well over a year. The cash held by]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Due diligence as a seller]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:57:04 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Much has been said about due diligence from the perspective of how a seller should prepare, and what to expect during the stringent process a sophisticated buyer will employ to]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[My welcome to Corum Group]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:41:20 GMT</pubDate>
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I am one of the newest members to the Corum Group. Officially I’m the newest Executive Assistant; unofficially I’m a new family member. I’ve been amazed to see how team-oriented]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
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Although corporate balance sheets are getting stronger, companies still prefer little snacks of companies and lack the appetite for large $1B+ deals. Much more is at risk for a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:56:20 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[As a Gonzaga University graduate with a degree in marketing and finance, I am excited about my new position at Corum as a marketing assistant. Corum is a great place to learn the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:59:47 GMT</pubDate>
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Just wrapping up two days at SoftLetter’s SaaS University in Austin, Texas. Attendance was strong, with over 100 software executives from around the world attending more than 30]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:23:44 GMT</pubDate>
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Yesterday’s “Selling Up Selling Out” conference (SUSO) in San Diego was a huge success. A high point of the event was guest speaker Michael McCafferty who spoke on his selling]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:12:22 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Although general market pressure pushed AVG Technologies stock down 19% on the initial day of trading, this was not due to their business model which has very healthy margins at]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:52:16 GMT</pubDate>
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To start off, you need to know that as a seller of a tech company in Europe, the likelihood of your company being acquired by a buyer from outside your country is immense. In]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:27:23 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ Know yourself, your market, your competitors, and your buyers Choose the right time – do not miss the ‘consolidation’ wave in your sub-sector If you sell software then]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:20:02 GMT</pubDate>
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McKinsey & Company recently published the results of a survey indicating that large companies are overly biased against making strategic investments such as acquisitions,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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The World Economic Forum, just down the road from us in Davos, began last week with a blast – a blast from Mother Nature as we had the worst snows in 66 years. Good for]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:00:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ Increasing mobile upload/download speeds around the world combined with the cloud will create mobile game changers in 2012.  Look for mobile payments to replace debit and]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:33:24 GMT</pubDate>
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In Corum’s "Forecast 2012: Global Tech M&A - Review and Predictions" webinar we discussed the dramatic increase of private equity activity in 2011. We saw PE spending big money]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:03:32 GMT</pubDate>
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Last week I attended CES for the first time in many years. When the video game industry started showing at CES decades ago, I was there with a booth, right next to a Sony booth,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:19:37 GMT</pubDate>
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In early March 2011, the Wall Street Journal published their "Top 50 Venture Funded Start-Ups" article found here: http://on.wsj.com/gKwHZ7

 

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         <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:10:19 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Where are some of opportunities going to come from in Social? Well, one opportunity is in attracting the older demographic. In the last 24 months, users 55 and older represent the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:50:43 GMT</pubDate>
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I recently read that only a tiny fraction of corporations reach the age of 40. A couple of professors concluded this after studying more than 6 million firms. They wrote that]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:48:41 GMT</pubDate>
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Reading Steve Jobs’ bio while on vacation a few weeks ago caused me to reflect on how technology has emerged over the years, and also how many parallels exist between the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:06:24 GMT</pubDate>
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In August, ’11 Marc Andreessen put forward his thesis on software “eating the world”. Essentially, his belief is that due to pervasive broadband and the high growth of smart]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:48:46 GMT</pubDate>
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Raising capital can be one of the most challenging and aggravating processes a startup ever faces, from the “one perfect angel” goose-chase to swallowing painful terms]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:05:15 GMT</pubDate>
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One of the guest speakers for our December webinar was Josef Mandelbaum of Perion, an Israel-based tech company that focuses on bringing high tech to what he called the “second]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:45:22 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

We're all very familiar with the big players in US tech, but there are plenty of up and coming brands internationally that you may not be as familiar with. If you're not yet]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Soocial]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:17:49 GMT</pubDate>
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We were fortunate enough to have Stefan Fountain, Founder and CEO of Soocial which was recently acquired by Viadeo, join us for our December webinar --]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:46:33 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Last week the national law firm, Dykema, released its seventh annual “Mergers & Acquisitions Survey,” compiled from a polling of 299 deal makers among leading company executives]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:42:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[More IPO's are expected this week than in any other week in the last three quarters.   

Two of the hottest are in video game software - Nexon in Japan, and Zynga (ZNGA) in the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:38:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

For such a small country, Israel often gets more than its share of headlines, and what not everyone knows is that it also has more than its fair share of software technology]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:11:54 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Earlier this week, I chaired the World Financial Symposiums’ Growth & Exit Strategies conference in London. We had over 100 registrants from 16 countries. The 20 speakers were]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's a good time to be a SaaS Company in the Cloud]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Following in the steps of Oracle’s acquisition of RightNow Technologies in October, SAP announced their own acquisition of SuccessFactors just the other day at 10.7x revenue]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Getting ready for Buyer discovery]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:47:25 GMT</pubDate>
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It’s only natural that buyers want to learn as much as they can about your company before they acquire it.  This discovery is essential to their valuation, risk analysis, the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:26:51 GMT</pubDate>
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For years in our Selling Up Selling Out M&A conference for software and tech executives, we’ve stressed the value of preparing in advance for an M&A event. This point has]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Attitude of gratitude]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It is rightly said that the most important things in life aren’t things.  These times of economic uncertainty may cause us to fixate on our litany of concerns and lose sight of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sovereign cash]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:38:15 GMT</pubDate>
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Part of the astounding cash flood we can see in the market today is the staggering amount of sovereign wealth that is available, about $4.7 trillion in assets in the top ten]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:16:15 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Japan's buying habits were one of the highlights of November's M&A webinar, and as I had recently returned from Tokyo, I was able to address these trends.

 



 

The yen has]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:13:49 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I started out in mobile computing way back in the '80s, so it has been fascinating to watch the mobile wave take place. The past year has been a watershed one for mobile as an]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Next multi-billion $$ space]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:03:59 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

The file transferring and sharing space is in a massive land grab mode as the industry starts to rise into the next multi-billion dollar realm. 

 

After Dropbox rejected an]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:40:57 GMT</pubDate>
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Our Tech M&A webinar on Thursday spotlighted some transactions in the Financial Services sector. Here is an excerpt from the material with extension:

 

 

 

“As a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:10:47 GMT</pubDate>
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Buyers often explore OEM agreements as an alternative to taking on the risk and expense of acquisition. Usually it takes only a couple of negotiating sessions to reach the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is driving the current M&A market]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:09:03 GMT</pubDate>
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What is driving the current Software and IT service M&A market? An answer in one word: Cash. 



 



 

The Corum Index (as reported on the monthly Corum Webinars)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Branding and the importance of event sponsorship]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:53:20 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

There are some extraordinary opportunities.

 



 

I just returned from the HOCR – Head of the Charles River Regatta. It’s the Mecca of rowing, the largest regatta in the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[App store fever]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:56:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Remember the good old days, when good software companies received M&A offers, rather than invitations to become one of 100,000 apps offered for ninety-nine cents in the app store?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 1-page rule]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:39:10 GMT</pubDate>
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I’m interviewing applicants for a number of positions. So often I hear, “They told me my resume should be only one page long.” During the interview I try to learn more,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:44:22 GMT</pubDate>
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We were divesting the software subsidiary of a large public company. The sale was being managed by a member of the Board of Directors of the parent, an attorney with a big ego]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:41:34 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I'm constantly looking for ways to make the huge amount of resources available on the web relevant to me. I want to be able to quickly find things that interest me and be able]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:59:29 GMT</pubDate>
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On Wednesday I was in Paris meeting with the CEO of an international software vendor serving global banks with solutions that automate trading processes and mitigate risk in the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:07:31 GMT</pubDate>
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As you would expect, we see a lot of interesting behavior with buyers and sellers during transactions. One of our recent themes has been discussing deal disasters – things]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:30:36 GMT</pubDate>
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A common conversation with clients revolves around whether they should show revenues generated through channel partners as a gross number (end user sales value) or a net number]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:24:34 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

There is a good lead article in The Economist, September 24,“Hunting the rich”. The top 1% of earners take home 20% of pre-tax income. Although they pay a disproportionate]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:32:30 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[  

In our minds, any deal that fails to close could be called a disaster. The worst are those that fail to close for all the wrong reasons. We had significant buyer interest in]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strategy, fundamentals & the new world]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:35:14 GMT</pubDate>
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In the tech M&A business, we speak to a lot of investors. These range from entrepreneurs, to venture capitalists to private equity firms. With the recent market]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Impact of the M&A Advisor – Google/Motorola Mobility]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:46:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

In our Selling Out, Selling Up workshop, we talk about the many ways that a qualified M&A advisor will impact the acquisition of your company. Here are two data points from our]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Portfolio of One]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:37:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ 

The fundamentals of Modern Portfolio Theory have been in place for 60 years and continue to drive fund managers’ and individuals’ investment strategies. We all want low risk /]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Opportunity knocks but once]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:26:20 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We had strong interest in our client company, with high value offers from very qualified strategic buyers. What ultimately caused deals to fall apart was not a collapse of the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:59:41 GMT</pubDate>
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We were approached by a seller who had the basis of an offer already in hand from a privately-held buyer. The seller’s Board wanted independent confirmation that the offer was a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:19:05 GMT</pubDate>
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Focusing on the deal value is not enough to fully evaluate a possible acquisition of your company; the structure plays an important role in determining how much funds actually]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
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Ernst & Young have tracked the steady increase in the value of technology M&A since 2008, with a 75% increase in the second quarter of this year. We are now in the third]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:08:03 GMT</pubDate>
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We recently ran a webinar where we discussed deal disasters. I shared the following story involving a European company that wanted sell off a subsidiary.

 



 

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         <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:41:23 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

The patent assault in the mobile space will start to slow.

 



 

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         <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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I attended a board meeting last week where the Board was debating whether it is a good time to seek a trade buyer for the company (see Part 1). The volatility in the stock]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:10:45 GMT</pubDate>
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I attended a board meeting last week where the Board was debating whether it is a good time to seek a trade buyer for the company. The recent movement in the stock market is at]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[You snooze, you lose]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:03:39 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I experienced a disaster caused by the two owners of a European software company who missed their window to sell due to constant delay. I had been in touch with them through our]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:45:07 GMT</pubDate>
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Valuations out of Silicon Valley aren’t surprising anymore. After hearing ridiculous Billion Dollar amounts thrown around for the last few months, I’ve grown numb. So the latest]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:14:48 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[As Europe's debt crisis deepens and after global manufacturing data proved disappointing, concerns are growing that major economies may slip back into a recession. Many investors]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:05:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In my last blog, I wrote about timing. This entry is about timing, but adds the element of patience. Given the increased activity in software M&A, we are frequently hearing from]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:41:20 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I follow professional boxing and recently read an article that talked about the global popularity of fighters. I found it interesting that they used the number of Twitter]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:03:08 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I attended Casual Connect, the Casual Games Conference, in Seattle last week. It was an exciting scene that certainly lived up to its name, as I saw plenty of old friends and]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:35:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

If your software business has a traditional licence-service-maintenance revenue model, do keep in mind how potential buyers will view the recurring revenue from]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:49:53 GMT</pubDate>
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Many of us recognize how important relative profitability is for the attractiveness of an acquisition target, i.e. the difference between two companies in the same market, one]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Opening your eyes to Ukraine]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:10:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I am in the international terminal at Kiev’s airport. Interestingly, despite living in Europe for 25 years, this is my first trip to Ukraine. I was moving to Munich in 1986 just]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:34:26 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Many software companies have a lot of recurring revenue from the 20 percent (or so) annual maintenance tail that they have from their previous perpetual license sales.

 



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         <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:42:22 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Announced in April, SuccessFactors has just closed their transaction to acquire Plateau Systems for an aggregate value of $290m. The CEO has said that they’ve seen four times]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are you the big dog in your vertical market?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:34:32 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

In our sell side software M&A activities, I frequently run across small software companies that are market leaders in their niche. At first look, this seems to be an attractive]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:58:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

My colleague Jon Scott recently commented on how CEO’s need to “grow up” with their companies.  The same unbounded enthusiasm and Wild West approach that got them “this far”,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:29:40 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

You often hear the saying that “timing is everything”, and in M&A this can be so true. More often than not, timing is only one factor that leads to a successful]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Summer is here. Finally. Seattle has had only a handful of days over 70 degrees since last September. It’s been a gloomy year here and the mood is reflected in the current]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[McIlroy wins US Open]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:46:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Rory McIlroy recently became the youngest US Open champion since Bobby Jones in 1923 and the youngest major winner since Tiger Woods triumphed at the Masters in 1997. McIlroy]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:25:03 GMT</pubDate>
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Though it’d been available on mobile and other venues, it looks like Google has now rolled out Voice Search at google.com, too. Can you say “Mergers and Acquisitions”? See what]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:21:18 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

The last great round of investments into Canadian VC’s happened about 10 years ago. Since then, Canadian VC’s have returned a negative IRR to their LP’s. Not surprisingly, LP’s]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:00:28 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Engineers are skeptics by nature. They make decisions based on facts, not convenience or speculation. When they take risks, the risks are calculated and supportable by]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quick thoughts on building a forecast]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:15:52 GMT</pubDate>
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The driving concept is defensibility. You want to be able to withstand a withering volley of challenges, developed by a fleet of fresh-faced MBA’s, posed by a buyer who is]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:31:17 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I’m very excited about the direction eBay is going. I’ve already written blog posts about eBay’s highly strategic shopping motives (M&A) over the past several months… and the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:04:58 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Hollywood loves activist shareholders - remember Wall Street and Gordon Gekko? The tech world has seen its fair share of them over the years, but there are two prominent cases I]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:28:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Australia is an interesting market. I just came back from client meetings down under and also conducted one of Corum’s Merge Briefings in Sydney attended by entrepreneurs,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 11:02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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The topic of our next webinar is "Social Wars" - building value quickly in the new social landscape. We will interview several CEOs who have successfully done this.

Some of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 11:21:58 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Computer, vertical market, and local business publications are always looking for new articles and fresh perspectives. Establish yourself as an expert in your field and gain free]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 10:25:10 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Waves of consolidation can roll through a market sector with the ferociousness of the recent tsunami in Japan. So, paying attention to industry trends is important. Keep an eye on]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:24:30 GMT</pubDate>
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During our most recent follow-up calls, I spoke to a Founder/CEO who was pleased to receive our latest valuation report (he is a long-time reader of Corum material), and also]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 13:37:03 GMT</pubDate>
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Will Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype mark the high-water mark for tech M&A in the current cycle? After staying out of the M&A game during the downturn, Microsoft has reportedly]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 13:21:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Has Microsoft been saving up to buy Skype all along????]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spotlight on the Cloud ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 09:57:34 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Corum is a platinum sponsor for the World Financial Symposiums, which runs conferences three times a year – in Silicon Valley, New York and London. These events have always]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 09:24:38 GMT</pubDate>
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Last week I hosted our Tech industry M&A workshop, Selling Up Selling Out, in Paris. It was a well attended session here in Europe despite being at the end of an Easter holiday]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:02:58 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We had a number of Corum deal makers weigh in on the phenomenon of hypervaluation in our April webinar, and this is a trend that seems likely to continue. An excellent example was]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:12:27 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ 

On the heels of the Google Deals announcement just a few days ago, Facebook is introducing its very own version of Deals yesterday. Groupon and LivingSocial have had hockey]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:30:30 GMT</pubDate>
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According to an article from the Wall Street Journal, venture capital is bouncing back at an incredible pace. The National Venture Capital Association reported that 2010 was]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:24:16 GMT</pubDate>
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Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why Google should buy the music industry]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:21:36 GMT</pubDate>
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That’s the headline where Glyn Moody takes off from a single line in Mashboxx founder and former Grokster President Wayne Rosso’s quote to step back and point out the fantastic]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:19:48 GMT</pubDate>
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In its best form, a minority investment can be great for a company. It can provide critical growth capital. It can bring in another sophisticated advisor to improve business]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:13:14 GMT</pubDate>
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At the recent Selling Up Selling Out conference in London, I received an interesting question “Is it true that American companies are buying foreign firms in order to use]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:11:26 GMT</pubDate>
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On his first day on the job Google’s new CEO announced that he will bid up to $900m for the patent portfolio of now defunct Nortel.

 



 

Years ago when I was running a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:22:37 GMT</pubDate>
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It's been on a lot of minds lately, no doubt, but how does it directly affect what we do?

 

The terrible occurrences in Japan have some obvious, immediate results. The tech]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:08:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[One of the deals we highlighted in our March webinar is important and exciting for a number of reasons. Nordstrom, a Seattle-based brick-and-mortar retailer, is forging ahead by]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:53:41 GMT</pubDate>
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Our friend John Gabbert of Pitchbook offered us some market analysis in our March webinar. His company tracks private equity data, transactions, etc., and was able to give us an]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:38:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[There seems to be some controversy developing regarding Amazon’s Cloud Drive and its privacy policy (or lack of one). Steven Vaughan-Nichols’ ZDNet Networking blog finds a reason]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:14:11 GMT</pubDate>
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Last night Amazon finally did what a number of companies have been striving to do, releasing a consumer-friendly way to take advantage of cloud computing. Not that plenty of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:27:03 GMT</pubDate>
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What’s fascinated me these past few weeks has been the tumultuous path that Netflix has been walking on. The company has had to endure new competition from Amazon which]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:36:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[My general feeling about the deal is that technically it is a good fit in that their networks are compatible; both use GSM and they can scale financially better together. What I]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:21:02 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Here is speculation about the impact on consumers given in an article on the 7 implications of AT&T / T-Mobile deal:]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why M&A advisors make a crucial difference]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:12:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ Although many (but not all) of our clients will know their global market better than we do, buyers will often come from associated markets where there is a complementary fit. It]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A billion new consumers?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:24:37 GMT</pubDate>
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The Libyan situation is dominating the headlines, along with the other protests throughout the Arab world. Everyone is worried - the increase in the price of oil may be]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:44:24 GMT</pubDate>
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One of the discussion points at a recent Corum webinar was the current trend of mini-mergers. In a market where megadeals and IPOs are unlikely, smaller scale deals provide a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:53:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Recently I spent several days in Spain and Portugal with our Managing Director, Miro Parizek, meeting with business leaders, and speaking at Merge Briefing conferences in Madrid]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Deal killers: Ignorance and Greed]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:58:27 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

There are some valuable lessons on M&A to be learned from the fall of Blockbuster. They failed to recognize the changes that were occurring in their space, and missed]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:48:30 GMT</pubDate>
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In January, one of my 2011 predictions was to see a major mobile OS vendor acquire one of North America's primary wireless carriers. In that prediction, I put a heavy emphasis]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:35:12 GMT</pubDate>
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Here at the Corum Group research team, we went above and beyond on our homework for this year's Forecast 2011 M&A webinar. One of the things that all our research allows us to]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:44:57 GMT</pubDate>
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I spent a few days at the annual RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. As always it was an interesting event, however, not many of the attendees I spoke with felt they came]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:42:18 GMT</pubDate>
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February's webinar featured our biggest sellers’ panel ever, so I was a bit more excited about this month's web event than usual. We had four live participants who took part in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:57:40 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about how the deal was structured. Not exactly inexpensive for MSFT to align with the largest handset vendor to remain viable in the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:05:37 GMT</pubDate>
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Several really senior Nokia guys did a 4-city tour of Canada recently, meeting hundreds of software developers and ISV’s saying that Nokia was serious about mobile apps and was]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:22:42 GMT</pubDate>
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MSFT’s new mobile OS is truly excellent, but nobody is buying it (except me). Meanwhile Nokia has the world’s biggest smartphone market share, but are close to 0% in the US and]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:43:19 GMT</pubDate>
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After the new year, an intriguing new trend was reported where more CEOs are taking an interest in their firm's IT security. With all the virus scares and security failings in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:48 GMT</pubDate>
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I sincerely hope that my kids are reading case studies about Stephen Elop someday. I would love for this to be a true turnaround story for Nokia, as they have been such a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[German VCs beat American VCs]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:40:04 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[German VCs beat US-based colleagues in average gross return since 1998, according to the Centre of Private Equity Research: Germany with an average return of 11% p.a., the US with]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:27:08 GMT</pubDate>
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When it comes to M&A, some predictions are harder than others. One natural position to take is that Microsoft will return to M&A in 2011. After a very quiet year in 2010,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:29:52 GMT</pubDate>
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I agree with all of those who predict a huge increase in tablet and smart phone sales. Smart phones have already made their place in the consumer and business world, and this]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:03:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[1. IPO activity among tech companies, in transaction volume, will climb a modest 10% due to continued difficulty in attracting institutional buyers.

2. Technology M&A activity]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:07:33 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of McKinsey & Company, just released a fascinating piece, A return to deal making in 2010,  which is highly suggested reading. 

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         <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

MS Explorer 10 offers navigation using Kinetic-based motion sensing technology.

 

Advanced facial recognition technology makes single sign-on a reality.

 

Availability of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[



 



 



 

Microsoft stores are acting as a tech emporium showcasing new technology from all the various suppliers - Sony, Toshiba, HP, Dell (AlienWare), even Amazon.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:43:19 GMT</pubDate>
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Retail/Consumer Payment Solutions will continue to evolve with the broad introduction of NFC (near field communications), SQUARE, and the like -- I don't think either of these]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:13:44 GMT</pubDate>
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My big expectation this year is I think we'll see some big plays on the wireless telecom front, as more pressure is placed on that infrastructure. If you think about it,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:34:01 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I always enjoy tracking what Larry Ellison of Oracle is up to. The guy is so in-your-face that it’s hard to ignore any press that I come across. This latest is unique, however, in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:16:17 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Google recently acquired Zetawire, a Toronto-based company that facilitates mobile payments. I thought this acquisition raised some interesting considerations for small software]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Webinar on 1/11/11 - 2010 Review and 2011 Predictions]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:31:52 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[One of the exciting things we do here at Corum every new year is sponsor the Annual M&A Forecast webinar. This year's event on Jan. 11 will look at last year's growth trends and]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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I just returned from a wonderful trip to New Zealand and Australia. Visiting with relatives, I talked at length with one who owns a small software company. While that company is]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:21:08 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The 451 Group just surveyed corporate development executives at Tech acquirers. The bottom line:  41% feel their 2011 deal activity will stay the same, while 52% believe their]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:49:27 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Many of my prospects ask about what development platform will give them the best exit potential.  A few years ago, everyone was on the .Net platform.  Who wants to bet against]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:43:49 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Videos are especially attractive for complicated, high-end products, since they can substitute for a costly, in-person sales call.  In fact, a well-done video can often be more]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:10:17 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Your telephone carrier will be glad to run a free feasibility study for you on the cost of an 800 number.  For ads and direct mail, many companies find they more than triple the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:42:26 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Buyers are influenced by other buyers, especially "important" ones who are technology leaders in their field.  For example, if you sell software to practicing accountants, you]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:33:32 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[People who will throw away your expensive, four-color brochures may avidly read your newsletter.  They like to see photos of your office or read stories on your latest]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:07:08 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Continuing Bruce Milne’s Guerrilla Marketing book of years back, more tips on getting the most for your marketing dollar… 

 

Entire books are written on direct mail, but here]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Motivations and outcomes – Navigating the incentives of the financial markets]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:39:02 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

First, some recent examples:

  A friend in wealth management referred a potential client. He called me to pass along the information. His firm – one of the biggest in the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:01:13 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It’s amazing how the contacts you make when helping out with Junior Achievement, the Chamber of Commerce, or even your high school reunion committee can lead to good business]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[



 

Traditional venture capital is being shaken up and the number of ongoing funds are dropping. There is a new group between traditional angels and traditional VCs – becoming]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:13:22 GMT</pubDate>
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In preparation of our monthly M&A Update webinar with this month’s focus on IBM, I decided to look into the last 100 acquisitions made by IBM to see if there were any clear]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[360 Scheduling acquired by IFS]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:49:26 GMT</pubDate>
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At the beginning of October, 360 Scheduling, based in the UK, became Corum’s latest client to successfully sell, in this case to the UK subsidiary of the Swedish company, IFS.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:41:40 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Proper planning for an exit requires knowledge of the process and an accurate assessment of the time required to complete various tasks that will result in the sale of your]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Starbucks is Genius]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:50:19 GMT</pubDate>
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A couple months back, SBUX announced that they would be running a US pilot program, testing methods to bring consumer traffic into the retail locations during "non-peak" hours.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:28:48 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[If applicable to your general marketing, be an advertiser in the local theater, symphony, and other types of cultural event programs. Some of these ads are very inexpensive given]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Paris on two wheels]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ 

Traffic in Paris is always sluggish, and parking is hit or miss. One lucky enough to find a parking spot will often return to his car to find a fender crumpled from the impact]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:29:13 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After having Google as our guest speaker at last month's webcast, I thought it appropriate to share an interesting article in the London Financial Times – they are a past]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SaaS - A bigger part of our future]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:13:50 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The focus on SaaS has grown over time, although the market has solidified, with notable leaders like Salesforce.com, Netsuite, Concur, Taleo and others commanding their share of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:07:14 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This is not for most companies, but some may find that their product or service (educational seminars, classes, repairs, etc.) will benefit from business placards. Try to pick]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[PE Roundtable - Conclusion: 2011 a good year for M&A … ill-advised to wait]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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On last Friday, Frank Berger and I hosted a PE roundtable discussion in Munich with 15 participants at the well received event. Managing directors of private equity firms later]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:05:48 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Earnouts are popular but complicated. In fact, people can’t seem to decide if it is one word, two words or hyphenated. Let’s keep it simple – one word… and simple is also the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Just back from WFS Seattle]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:21:24 GMT</pubDate>
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A few days ago we wrapped up the first annual Seattle World Financial Symposiums "Growth and Exit Strategies" Conference where Corum was a platinum sponsor. Now, this event is]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:08:09 GMT</pubDate>
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I have been informally coaching a business friend who runs a non-technology business. This CEO is a first time seller, has recently agreed to a term sheet with a buyer, and is]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Into the Red Zone]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:10:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[As sell-side M&A advisors, we sometimes see the fortunes of our clients turn during the time we are in the market. We witnessed this recently when debt-holders stepped in and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing – Be a media “expert”]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:26:54 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Company spotlight: OpenTable.com]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:25:30 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

For over ten years, the reservation management software company has been helping diners make appointments at their favorite digs. For the past three years before they filed]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tech M&A remains alive]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:40:01 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[At Corum, we’ve been saying for years that M&A is the only real liquidity event for software company entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, transaction proceeds from M&A far]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Time to take the medicine in the UK]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:42:34 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

The UK general election resulted in a seemingly unlikely coalition of Conservatives and Liberals taking over from Labour. Fortunately, they seem to have reached a sufficiently]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[International arbitrage – Asia ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:19:14 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[When I worked in Japan, we funded a lot of the M&A deals with EuroDebt with Equity warrants. It was free money, as long as the Japanese market kept spiraling up. When the market]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why do some transactions take so long?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:10:20 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A friend recently asked me why some transactions take so long to get done. So often the answer is simply lack of preparation. While some things are outside a seller’s control,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Restructuring of the Software Industry]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I read with great interest the recent article by our friends at Summit Partners, Greg Goldfarb and Jason Glass. See]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:27:06 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I have been asked this question a few times now. “I saw Nat Burgess (Corum’s President) interviewed on CNBC’s Closing Bell the other day. He talked about the 3PAR deal and the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:25:20 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Some time ago, the CEO of one of my clients had to leave the company during the M&A process. The CFO took over the responsibility for all the project’s tasks which normally would]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How to play Tech M&A? Corum tells Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:13:14 GMT</pubDate>
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Corum President Nat Burgess was quoted on WSJ's MarketWatch this weekend regarding "How to play the technology stock M&A wave":]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:32:52 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Yesterday, I was in a meeting with the CEO of a $6m SaaS company. In the context of his shareholder’s plan to exit in the next 18 to 24 months, he asked a classic question: 

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         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:01:54 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Continuing Bruce Milne's guide to "Software Company Guerilla Marketing" on how to market effectively, using little money... Always give your audience a directive task as part of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Obsolete technologies]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:21:06 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was amused by the list of "Top 20 Obsolete Technologies" compiled by our friends at ABS Capital Partners. Many of these were long time market leaders, or strikingly innovative]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Surviving the deal – how to ensure success in M&A]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:37:46 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[If you want insight into how to structure a successful M&A transaction, download my new white paper profiling EMC’s acquisition of Data Domain. We always go for maximum]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Intel buys McAfee for $7.7 billion ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:42:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

On Thursday, August 19, the chip giant agreed to pay $48 a share in cash for the anti-virus vendor, a premium of roughly 60 percent. At first one might ask, why pay such a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Missing your numbers during M&A ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:51:31 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A full M&A process should take nine or more months; it is quite possible that there will be contact with seriously interested buyers lasting six months.  A demanding forecast will]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SaaS still sizzles]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:44:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I recently returned from speaking at SaaS University hosted by Softletter in Washington DC. This event attracted a good turnout of SaaS executives and industry leaders from around]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:50:09 GMT</pubDate>
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From the August webcast, “SOLD” - Sellers Panel, there were several recurring themes that came from the four presenters. Here are three related ones:

 



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         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:43:08 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[My colleague Ward Carter posted an interesting blog about working capital adjustments. I’m living his scenario now on a deal negotiation, and encourage everyone to read it. Here]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:42:57 GMT</pubDate>
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Having just been through a deal where negotiations fell apart over working capital levels, I thought it worthwhile to share some of my observations on this matter.

 



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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:16:09 GMT</pubDate>
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[A continuation of Bruce Milne’s "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget Marketing and Sales Campaign"]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:55:40 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Consumer goods manufacturers wouldn’t dream of doing a full-scale promotional campaign and product release without test marketing first. Unfortunately, most software companies]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:26:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Another of the inexpensive but highly effective marketing ideas published years ago by Bruce Milne. Maybe this could this work for you... 

The trick here is to be very highly]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What if you had 26% more cash?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:04:44 GMT</pubDate>
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that at the end of March, non-financial companies in the U.S. were sitting on $1.84 trillion in cash and other liquid assets, up 26% from]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:35:27 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It was early morning, down the east side of Queen Charlotte Island, at the out-of-bounds marker. Dead calm, near shore, next to a kelp bed, with grey whales slowly circling. A]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:34:34 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We’re taking our Selling Up Selling Out “show” on the road to Singapore for the first time ever this month! Mark Reed, who was Corum’s lead M&A Advisor on the recent]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:14:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Surveys can provide information on your customer likes and dislikes, perceptions of competitive products, suggestions for enhancements and new products, etc. You may use high]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Back from Lisbon]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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I just spent a few days in Lisbon (Portugal) to meet with software CEOs, entrepreneurs and VCs. What is most striking when you get there is that the city, just like elsewhere in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:46:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I’m watching earnings and cash balances among larger public tech companies grow. Unlike more traditional businesses which might increase dividends or pursue a stock buy-back]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
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This continues the "Tools for Guerilla Marketing" written by Bruce Milne over 20 years ago, listing tried-and-true techniques that really work. While some need to be]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Timing An Exit – The Impact of Capital Gains Tax Increase]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
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Timing is an important part of every seller’s decision. Assessing whether you can find the right valuation today or are better off using the next year or two to build the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:15:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There’s something happening in the market…]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:50:38 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I was excited to be in the Midwest this past week, speaking at Corum’s “Merge Briefing” and meeting with software companies. The Merge Briefing was sponsored by NEOSA]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:44:52 GMT</pubDate>
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Last week I spoke to 100 software execs (mostly CEOs and CFOs) at the PricewaterhouseCoopers Vision to Reality session in Toronto. This annual event highlights the results of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 15:58:23 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Mainstream press reports on the increase in tech M&A keep popping up, with Business Week joining in yesterday with “Tech M&A: Ready for a Ramp-Up” at]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 12:15:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[If your company name is XYZ Computing and you specialize in website development, put a message in quotes on your card that says “The Website Developers”. How many times have you]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A difference in attitude - Germany vs US]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:12:03 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[During our yearly planning meeting in Seattle a few weeks ago, I chatted with my colleagues about various aspects of our jobs and realized again that there is a significant]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ventyx Energy Deal Commentary - ABB acquires Ventyx]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 10:05:28 GMT</pubDate>
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The Deal
The acquisition of Ventyx (www.ventyx.com) by ABB (www.abb.com) announced on May 5,has the look of a bellwether deal in the energy and environment sector. This all cash]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Debt and uncertainty in the UK]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 10:46:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Like most of Europe, the UK is coming out of recession. Given the largesse of the financial stimulus that was provided and the poor state of the public finances going in to what]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Timing is everything]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 16:49:27 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[They say that timing is everything. Valuations are on their way up, so when will they reach their peak? Well, past evidence would suggest that valuations build over five or more]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[PE secondary market opening up?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 07:49:24 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It looks like the PE’s secondary market and exits to other financial sponsors is beginning to open up. Yesterday, TA Associates sold a majority of Sophos to the larger technology]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing – Follow up needs a plan]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It is amazing how many software firms do a great job of generating leads, but an abysmal job of following up. If you’re going to generate a mailbox full of leads with one of these]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Canadian M&A Forecast for 2010]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:49:33 GMT</pubDate>
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We predict that 2010 will likely be one of the most active years for Canadian Software M&A in many years for a number of reasons. 

 



 

On the Supply Side - Firstly, many]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:09:26 GMT</pubDate>
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Not only do you need to present a consistent, comprehensive company image, you also need to present it as often as possible. Too many companies put together a flashy brochure,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Asian markets are surging]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:31:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Asia is now the most dynamic market in the world. Here in Singapore the real estate market is buzzing and signs of growth are everywhere. I’ve lived half my life in Asia and flown]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mergers & Acquisitions, Saucisson chaud et pommes vapeur]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:47:31 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Le 24 mars 2010, Nat Burgess, Président de Corum Group et moi (Jérôme Fougerat, Directeur de Corum), étions à Lyon, la capitale des Gaules et de la gastronomie. A l’invitation]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing – Be Consistent]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:26:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Your company image is one of your most valuable assets. Never underestimate the power of your name, logo, corporate colors, and tone of your advertising, PR, product packaging and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cession ou levée de fonds ? Bon timing, mauvais timing ? ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Parmi les nombreuses questions qu’on se pose avant de lancer un processus de transaction, il y en a deux qui reviennent souvent : 

  Quelle option choisir entre la levée de]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing – Never stop selling]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:26:01 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Sell every way you can; for example, never send out a mailing to customers or resellers (even an invoice!) without asking what else you can put in the envelope [or email] to]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hierarchy vs. Search]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:02:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ One of my co-workers this morning informed me that she was trying to switch to Gmail. I thought this was a nice gesture - not that she did it for me, but that she told me she]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Current Case: Earn-out targets missed]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:49:06 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A current case: Because one of my clients missed his earn-out targets, the former shareholders are not entitled to any earn-out payments for 2009. The reason for this is not only]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing - Leverage your efforts]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:25:30 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

When choosing your sales and marketing techniques, don’t look at them singularly, but rather in tandem – how do they work together and help each other? For example, a mailing by]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Où part la technologie française?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:24:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Corum Group vient de réaliser une analyse portant sur un peu moins de 300 transactions dans les NTIC; elles impliquent toutes une entreprise française, cible ou acquéreur. Les]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Google acquisition of Picnik is a huge gust of wind in all of our sails..]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:28:46 GMT</pubDate>
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The Google acquisition of Picnik is a huge gust of wind in all of our sails..

 



 

First, we have a concrete example of the talent pool created by our local juggernauts]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:49:09 GMT</pubDate>
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Earnouts are a common element of a creative deal structure, especially where there is a value gap between the buyer’s best offer and the seller’s valuation expectation. During]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guerilla Marketing - Before you begin...]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:34:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Bruce Milne wrote many years ago in "Software Company Guerilla Marketing", that before you can begin your marketing campaign, you must first define your target customers, channels]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:37:56 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Over 2 decades ago, Corum's founder, Bruce Milne, wrote "Software Company Guerilla Marketing: How to Succeed in the Software Wars with a Carefully Targeted, Low/No Budget]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:57:50 GMT</pubDate>
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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover your high school class is running the country.”

 



 

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         <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:55:01 GMT</pubDate>
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Recently I was asked by a CEO how they could value their early-stage technology business. The company was looking to close its first round of institutional investment and needed]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:16:30 GMT</pubDate>
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Google recently announced plans to build an experimental fiber network that would run at speeds of 1gb per second. There's already hundreds of articles and thousands of blog]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[My recent trip back from London (a real story)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:46:27 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It started at 4:45pm UK time when my last meeting ended on Wednesday and I headed off to the London City airport for my flight taking off in a little over two hours. 45 minutes]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:20:34 GMT</pubDate>
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Over the last number of months I have been increasingly excited about the uptake in the smartphone market. I usually look to my early-20’s / late-teen's kids to see what they]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:35:52 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I’m just back from the 16th annual Genesys partners' dinner in Manhattan, where I met with many of the leading financial sponsors in the New York area. Special thanks to Genesys]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tablet computers – it’s about time.  Bring it on.]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:06:28 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Having been involved in the computer and software industry forever, I’m personally very excited about the new push in tablets. It’s not a new idea at all. Does anyone remember]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:22:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[On the software M&A front we continue to see excellent interest from strategic buyers in small (under $10 million in revenues) technology companies. I have recently closed two]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:10:05 GMT</pubDate>
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This question was raised during the Webinar for UK and Ireland, held on 19 January.

 



 

It is the case that the US is home to the largest number of major software]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:08:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Under the tight scrutiny of a buyer’s due diligence team, the likelihood of a software merger falling apart between LOI and close is higher than ever. Gone are the haphazard]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do distressed sales end up costing you more in the long run?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:06:43 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[So, when is a low priced acquisition really a good deal? Just like the residential real estate industry, some sector valuations are being indirectly influenced by ‘distressed’]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Challenges for French IT companies (Note from Paris)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:20:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I recently spoke at an event sponsored by AFDEL, the most influential software association in France. 25 CEOs of emerging companies attended the event. They were representative of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:55:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

First of all let me wish you all a Happy New Year and indeed a new decade. If you are interested in any of the following events, then please contact me (johnm@corumgroup.com).]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:06:41 GMT</pubDate>
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We have been discussing the biggest single mistake you can make in selling your tech company: talking to only one buyer. The reasons should be intuitively obvious to anyone, yet]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crouching market, hidden value (Note from Paris)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Recently I met with the VC backers of a (lamentably) public company growing at 40% annually, profitably, with a market capitalization equal to the cash on the balance sheet. The]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:19:43 GMT</pubDate>
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Recently I was pleased to make a presentation on Software and IT Service valuations at the World Financial Symposium in London.

 



 

Month-by-month transaction volumes are]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:38:51 GMT</pubDate>
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As we discussed in prior installments, dealing with only one buyer can be a disaster, and is the biggest single mistake that sellers make. One of the major reasons is that a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[eReaders:  Win or Fail?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:12:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After a recent meeting, a few of us were sitting around chatting about what we were doing over the holidays. This conversation quickly turned towards the gifts we planned on]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Make sure you understand the question before you answer]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:05:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

We almost lost a deal in LOI recently when a small thing turned into something pretty big. When asked pre LOI, my client told our buyer his company got an average of 10 leads,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Biggest Mistake, Part 3: The “Wear” Factor ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:14 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[As discussed previously, dealing with only one buyer can be a disaster, and is the biggest single mistake that sellers make.  One of the reasons is that due diligence and contract]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Getting face to face with your audience]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:22:03 GMT</pubDate>
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Had the pleasure of traveling last week with a software M&A client to meet with a buyer at the buyer’s HQ across the US. Nothing like a face to face meeting to advance a deal.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:12:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Some of the most interesting discussions at the London WFS conference occurred over coffee, in between sessions. Basically, established companies with scale and a defensible]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Biggest Mistake, Part 2: The Lack of Leverage]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:19:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We recently discussed that the single biggest mistake made in selling your tech company is only talking to one buyer, or only those buyers that approach you. I’ve lost track of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs and Money Men (Note from London)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:20:02 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The Growth Equity Panel at the London WFS conference included a fascinating exchange with one of Europe’s most successful serial entrepreneurs (two of his VC backed companies sold]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:54:41 GMT</pubDate>
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We've seen a healthy stream of deals in the past couple months. Along with the spike in transaction volumes, we've also tracked a strong increase in valuation multiples,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Last week I chaired the 7th annual World Financial Symposiums "Growth & Exit Strategies" event in London. It was quite a session with speakers and delegates from 13 countries.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:16:18 GMT</pubDate>
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At the London WFS conference, everyone seemed to be looking East. The European IPO market is basically dead – it accounted for only .5% of the total money raised globally in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:07:49 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I moderated the Private Equity Panel at the November 17th World Financial Symposiums conference in London. There were about 80 people in the room – mostly CEOs – and healthy give]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:50:14 GMT</pubDate>
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I recently traveled through several cities in Europe and the U.S. speaking at various conferences that Corum sponsors. The one question I received that sticks out more than any]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:13:38 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[So, what would you pay for a software company that has 80%-plus of its revenue recurring annually (per user subscription model), growing at modest 10% a year, has over 400-plus]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:14:26 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

A while ago I posted the founder of IBM, Thomas’ Watson’s comment, “I think there's a world market for about five computers.” I got thinking about that as I was sending an email]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:22:07 GMT</pubDate>
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Yesterday, at our monthly M&A Flash webinar, I had the great pleasure of introducing my old, old friend, Charles Rim, now a Corp Dev Principal at Google. He has been involved in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:49:34 GMT</pubDate>
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Corum Group is pleased to introduce the newest member to our Bellevue Headquarters team, Michele Pewitt. Michele will be serving as an Administrative/Marketing Assistant.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:29:54 GMT</pubDate>
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I wrote a chapter in the recently released book “The Entrepreneurial Effect” (available at www.commonerspublishing.com ). The book is a collection of experiences from successful]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:10:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After the dot com meltdown, a lot of companies relaxed and extended the runway of their existing technologies on the assumption that the economic downturn had slowed innovation.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:30:08 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Just had the opportunity to get a fresh impression of the IT scene in the Czech Republic. Some 20 entrepreneurs and managers participated in my “Selling Up, Selling Out “ seminar,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Public companies were under pressure to survive when the big crunch hit in Q4 2008. They were under pressure to maintain profits when purchasing slowed. They were under pressure]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:11:33 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It has been an interesting week of signals about what the future might hold for the software M&A market. The Dow inched over 10,000 before falling back a little and the NASDAQ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:19:31 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Corum Group is pleased to announce promotion of our new Director of Research, Dougan Milne. Dougan has been with Corum Group for over three years and has just recently returned to]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SOS - Its beginning]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:05:24 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[On Oct. 3, 1906, at the second international conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin, the letters SOS were adopted as an international distress signal, replacing the earlier]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:36:09 GMT</pubDate>
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Recently the 37Signals guys put out the best send-up ever of the zero-revenue startup valuation paradox: 

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        <title><![CDATA[What's in your future?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:00:47 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Yesterday in San Diego I was the keynote speaker at the Software Business Conference, “Success Strategies for ISVs, Software and SaaS Companies.” I asked attendees to think about]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Let’s Talk About Revenue and the Importance of Backlog]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:48:16 GMT</pubDate>
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Buyers may discount the quality of your revenues because of the way you characterize them. Take steps to avoid the wrong conclusions that will ultimately undermine your]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Financial Planning and Cloud Computing ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:15:42 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Last month on the 3rd anniversary of the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, said, “It is amazing to see the impact this]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lessons from the Field--RECESSION RECOVERY: # III]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Not all companies were able to weather the destructive nature of economic tsunami. Unfortunately, I spoke to a few founder/CEOs that just ran out of market demand, time and/or]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lessons from the Field--RECESSION RECOVERY #2]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:19:52 GMT</pubDate>
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Here is some additional feedback from the CEO of another middle market software company. This executive reported that while they had been affected by the tough economic times,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lessons from the Field--RECESSION RECOVERY:  #1]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
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I just completed talking with several technology executives that manage middle market ($2.5M to $100M) privately held companies about the impact on business over the past 8-9]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Unexpected diversity]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:59:56 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Even after decades following the software entrepreneur scene here in Seattle, I find myself continually surprised to discover such a diversity of established software companies]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Completing the deal and what you don’t see.]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:49:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

July was a good month. Two of my clients sold their software companies. In fact they closed within three days of each other, one on Friday and the other on Monday. What struck]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["Who knew?" moments]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:06:51 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Software technology is interesting; there’s lots of near rocket science stuff out there. We see our share and I get how cool some of it is, but I find the vertical market software]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The recession is over! (in Canada)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:26:43 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

The Governor of the Bank of Canada recently announced that the recession in Canada is over. While Government has a major stimulus package creating a significant deficit, it is]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:11:09 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Yes, but valuations are trending up and have been doing so steadily since Feb 2009.

 



 

Software business owners don’t tend to think in terms of multiples of free cash]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Needed: A clear competitive edge]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:42:24 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I sat through an interesting presentation by an executive of a new Corum client. I do that a lot lately. Corum is busy with new clients. The interesting thing about it is the high]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When deals fall apart...]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:26:04 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Under the tight scrutiny of a buyer’s due diligence team, the likelihood of deals falling apart between LOI and close is higher than ever. Long gone are the haphazard bubble years]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The sound of green shoots? (July 2009)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:14:57 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

The economic consensus in the UK is that although things have stopped getting worse, they are not getting better in a hurry. Recovery in the UK is likely to be weak, and we may]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thailand - an emerging market]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:45:57 GMT</pubDate>
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According to Microsoft (Thailand)'s Managing Director, Patama Chantaruck, Microsoft is considering expanding its research and development capabilities in Thailand in various]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[London AIM IPO update – still quiet (July 2009)]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:18:47 GMT</pubDate>
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With there being no IPOs on the AIM market since December, two deals were closed just before the end of the first half of 2009. One was a ‘vulture’ property fund that raised]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Searching for capital]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:18:41 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I was invited to participate in a group to meet in Bend, Oregon with Senator Wyden to talk about his recently passed legislation to fund a Venture Catalyst position for EDCO -]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Future OS]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:14:54 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[



 

There's been a lot of talk over the years of Google producing an OS to rival the likes of Microsoft, as well as Apple and Linux. The recent announcement by Google to]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Forecasting as you go]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:26:02 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I’ve been helping, but mostly watching, one of my clients go through the process of forecasting revenue for a financial package intended for the reading pleasure of a potential]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Private Equity - Active buyers once again]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:49 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It looks like Private Equity firms are becoming more active again as buyers for software companies. In one of my current projects, a $50 M software and services company, out of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Independence Day in a small town]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:26:52 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ 

I went to the Madras, Oregon, my adopted home town, 4th of July celebration today. It was a lot of fun. The kick off parade had horses a couple of goats, clowns, old cars,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Another brave software company being rewarded]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:11:10 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[LogMeIn Inc., a remote access software company, has followed the very few brave tech companies to go public this year. Like the other tech IPOs in 2009, the market has received]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Recovery?  Or transition to a normal recession?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:57:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Even the bears have stopped talking about a “great depression.” Now the question is whether we will see a recovery in the second half, or a transition to a “normal recession.”]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shoulda Woulda Coulda]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:21:52 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[My daughter’s wedding is just around the corner. The venue was booked over a year ago. Would I have planned anything differently then if I’d known how the economy would be today?]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:41:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I seem to recall the days when we used to say that if we can't get the transaction done by mid to end June, we would have to wait till September.   

With every passing  year the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Signs of Improvement]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:25:18 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I think we are all hoping for signs the economy is improving and that the worst is behind us. My gut tells me things are better than 3 months ago, and if I look at my investment]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["Business Plan Jumble"]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:56:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[There are still a few companies playing “Business Plan Jumble,” where promising terms are randomly assembled into a value proposition. How about “Web 2.0 Mashup Threat Management]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Encouraging Signs ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:01:53 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The recent IPO’s from SolarWinds and OpenTable are welcome sights as we in the tech sector continue to look for good news.  Will the offering push open the flood gates and ignite]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Real dialog in tough times]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:47 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Since the blow-up in October, conversations with buyers, investors and entrepreneurs have gradually come down to earth, to the point where many conversations are earnest and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Growth and Exit Strategies - San Jose]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:35:38 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was invited by the World Financial Symposiums to Chair their Silicon Valley “Growth and Exit Strategies for Software and IT Companies” conference on May 14th.  I invited Google,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Difficulties an M&A advisor may have to face ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:13:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[One of my current projects is a good example for the difficulties an M&A advisor may have to face if the goals of the key players in the project are not aligned with the goals of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Real dialog in tough times]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 09:58:31 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Since the blow-up in October, conversations with buyers, investors and entrepreneurs have gradually come down to earth, to the point where many conversations are earnest and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tough Times]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:14:33 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Tough times. Have to work probably twice as hard to achieve the same results. But despite the difficult environment – not only interest in selling but also interest in buying is]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mega Deals: Twitter. Adding to the Catalyst?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

It often takes a few big deals to jump-start the cycle. We call these deals “Mega Deals,” and in times of economic turmoil (see: now), these mega deals act as a catalyst for]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There still needs to be a exit strategy]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:35:37 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Just getting caught up from a four-day road trip in Boston.  I attended the Software Business SaaS and SLAM conference for three days, including the Selling Up Selling Out M&A]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 11:21:23 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The first quarter of 2009 has seen a heavy drop off in technology VC investment in UK, broadly back to levels last seen in 2005.  Both the absolute number and size of deals have]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:47:04 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[After hosting a Merge Briefing in Vienna attended by a number of venture capitalists and negotiating with private equity investors regarding the financing of a potential]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["Time to Market” in an M&A trough]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:33:08 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In boom times we can sell the best company at a premium because time to market matters a lot.  Buyers want a mature asset that already has traction.  In a trough the opposite is]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Challenges of Cross Border Transactions]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:14:33 GMT</pubDate>
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Software is a global business and often the best buyer may be from abroad. However, cross border transactions carry additional risks and challenges. Buyer and seller may have]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:31:08 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[On May 14, Corum is sponsoring the seventh annual Growth and Exit Strategies conference in Silicon Valley.  The question of “Will It Ever Be The Same?” will be answered, as it is]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:53:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Some things I can do well (or at least adequately) on my own – paint a bedroom, mow the lawn, bake a birthday cake. Then there are times when I hire an expert – to create my]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Software and the Stimulus Package]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I searched for the word "software" in the actual text of the 2009 Economic Stimulus Package law the US Congress passed earlier this year, then read those sections. It took me a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Companies need to get ahead of the curve]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of addressing 80 software CEO’s and CFO’s in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.  There seems to be a feeling that most are going to “hunker down” and wait]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:06:31 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[With VC funds hard to come by and IPOs non-existent, where will the new innovation VC and IPO dollars have helped to incubate come from next?  One school of thought is that]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Considerations in selling a software business]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Corum's Regional Director for the United Kingdom, John Melotte was recently interviewed by Knowledge Peers, a membership organization for people who run growth businesses in the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wanted: one firm, on the cheap]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:13:54 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Bruce Lazenby, Corum's Regional Director of Canada, was recently interviewed by Krystle Chow of the Ottawa Business Journal in her article, “Wanted: one firm, on the cheap.” ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Divestitures Revisited Article & Web Event]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:34:48 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Read Nat Burgess’ recently published article in NetworkWorld, “What vendors will need to examine as they look to shed assets.”  He addresses why there will be a wave of carve-puts]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Apple joins the netbook fad…]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:48:27 GMT</pubDate>
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I don’t believe Netbooks are a fad… but rather, they have yet to evolve to their intended potential. If you look at the user demographics for these devices, they are greatly]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:02:32 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

Corum debuted its monthly webcast program, the M&A Flash Report, on Thursday, March 5 with the topic “Software and IT Valuation Update: How is the current stimulus and market]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Our industry has shown some resilience]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:17:46 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

The current economic climate has not been favorable to any industry. Software and IT is not an exception. However, what we’ve seen across several other industries, are]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:24:45 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Have you seen the term “The Edison Gap.”  I hadn’t, but I expect everyone else has.  The phrase was coined by Francis McInerney, the managing director of North River Ventures in]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dragons Den in reverse]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:47:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I find Dragons’ Den compulsive TV viewing. For those not familiar with this UK program, the format is that a panel of experienced (and wealthy) Angel investors hear pitches from]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crisis always offers opportunity]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:32:23 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[“I live in mighty fear that all the universe will be broken into a thousand fragments in the general ruin, that formless chaos will return and vanquish the gods and men, that the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Software M&A – should you be a player?]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:54:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["New venture financing has ground to a halt, as many VCs rush to prop up portfolio companies hit hard by the downturn and angels fear to tread," said Ward Carter, Corum's]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dougan Milne Introduction]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:47:30 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Dougan Milne.  I've been with Corum since 2005 as a research analyst in our Zurich, Switzerland office.  Our research departments are highly synchronized between]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If an overwhelming majority is convinced...]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:10:13 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[What happened to my fellow countrymen? Known as being pessimistic by nature and trying to avoid any kind of risk, they seem to be ignoring the frightening forecasts for our]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are simply more buyers]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:40:59 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Tech heavy NASDAQ is down close to 40% since mid-January 2008.  Two years with no IPO market.  Economic crisis wreaking havoc throughout all industries globally.  Yet software and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["I am so pleased we got out when we did."]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:29:31 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[While traveling recently, I met with a prior client and good friend who sold his software business through Corum in 2006.  After 18 years of pressure of meeting payroll and]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:11:05 GMT</pubDate>
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It used to be that the SFLG (Small Firms Loan Guarantee) scheme was the only real support that government offered SMEs, and very good it was, too. With the current financial]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:03:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was on the net this morning skimming financial news headlines – none of them good, when it occurred to me how often I don’t see a cash flow statement in the financial packages I]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:23:39 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It’s the start of a new year and I’m taking a fresh look at our storage area and supply inventory.  Those boxes of stationery have an old address – let’s turn them into notepads]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Aptonyms are the core of a lot of bad puns]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:31:26 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I ran across a new word today – Aptonym.  I wanted to share with you. Microsoft’s spell checker doesn’t know it either so I don’t feel too bad about my ignorance. What is an]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The gap between expectations and real value ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:40:02 GMT</pubDate>
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Miro Parizek warns that the gap between expectations and real value is making deals hard to agree and is holding back the level of M&A activity... 


 



 

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        <title><![CDATA[A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:24:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street – Boutique M&A firms are taking over.   

I just came across a very interesting article from Bloomberg which discussed the collapse]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Brazil – a good place for IT investments]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
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We have seen a consolidation move in Brazil in 2008, including with the friendly takeover offer for Datasul by TOTVS (both companies made several acquisitions of their own in 08]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["Shop in your own closet!"]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:50:13 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was wandering around on the Internet this morning and ran across an article about saving money titled "Shop in your own closet!" about magazines. For some reason the title made]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fits and starts]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:03:30 GMT</pubDate>
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We all look to past experience to explain the present. My first reaction to the financial crisis was to look back at the trends that followed the dot.com bubble, and what I]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Predicting professional success ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:51:59 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was reading a Malcolm Gladwell blog entry titled Teachers And Quarterbacks this morning. He made a comment I think is relevant to anyone hiring software developers.  Gladwell,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[My vote for one of 2008's strangest deals is...]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:04:23 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

My vote for one of 2008's strangest deals is Elevation Partners $100 million investment in Palm announced this week. It’s especially strange since it was made with full]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Time for new beginnings]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The new year is upon us and it’s the traditional time for new beginnings. I’m involved in one here in Central Oregon where the nascent tech community is trying to get organized]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The new year is upon us and it’s the traditional time for new beginnings. I’m involved in one here in Central Oregon where the nascent tech community is trying to get organized]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The new year is upon us and it’s the traditional time for new beginnings. I’m involved in one here in Central Oregon where the nascent tech community is trying to get organized]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street – Boutique M&A firms are taking over.

 



 

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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street – Boutique M&A firms are taking over.

 



 

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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street – Boutique M&A firms are taking over.

 



 

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         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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A Seismic shift has taken place on Wall Street – Boutique M&A firms are taking over.

 



 

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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I can’t remember what I was Googling for, but whatever it was I got sidetracked by a blog comment about  the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News scaling back on home delivery. If]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I can’t remember what I was Googling for, but whatever it was I got sidetracked by a blog comment about  the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News scaling back on home delivery. If]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can’t remember what I was Googling for, but whatever it was I got sidetracked by a blog comment about  the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News scaling back on home delivery. If]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I can’t remember what I was Googling for, but whatever it was I got sidetracked by a blog comment about  the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News scaling back on home delivery. If]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I can’t remember what I was Googling for, but whatever it was I got sidetracked by a blog comment about  the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News scaling back on home delivery. If]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I can’t remember what I was Googling for, but whatever it was I got sidetracked by a blog comment about  the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News scaling back on home delivery. If]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[2009 Software/IT M&A Review and Forecast]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:43:54 GMT</pubDate>
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Corum Group presented its annual year-end webinar this past Thursday, Jan. 15. The event, “2009 Software/IT M&A Review and Forecast: Doing Deals in a Depression” was widely]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:53:30 GMT</pubDate>
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In 2009, the IT market as a whole will be shaped by two major forces colliding with each other at warp speed. A deep global recession meets an ongoing IT industry]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:18:47 GMT</pubDate>
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Hello, I am Jeff Brown. I am a regional director and deal maker for Corum, based in Houston. I joined the firm in 2007 after 25 years in technology entrepreneurship including]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:59:04 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I am here in a warm and welcoming Istanbul – a great place to do business.  Back home, London’s financial sector has been hit bad; the pound has slumped against the Dollar and the]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:01:50 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The Canadian dollar is on sale at a 30% discount from the US dollar over the last few months and the Euro trades at a 70% premium to the C$ which means that Canadian sellers are]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:15:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hi! I'm Elon Gasper. I joined Corum last year, and since then have been involved with a number of projects and clients. As a former software entrepreneur and client myself, I'm]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:57:36 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[  

Corum’s senior staff braved the biggest snow storm of the season, leaving their homes as early as 4:00AM, beat the traffic and accumulating snow, to participate in the most]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:48:01 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[



I’m sure you’ve been thinking of ways to save money.  Here are 13 more for you to consider.








Technology – Take another look what you have now. What else can it do for]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:19:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello.  I’m Pat Sultan, Corum’s Director of Operations, based in Bellevue, WA.  I joined Corum in 1999.  During the previous 20+ years, I worked at university and public]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:14:55 GMT</pubDate>
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Let’s face it, with times getting tougher, companies need to do all they can to save money and cut costs. 




It’s not only important to find the best deals on new contracts,]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:53:52 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Market sector convergence is rampant throughout the M&A landscape and continues to be a driving force behind a fair number of deals.  For example, wireless device manufactures]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:23:46 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The global economy is continuing to decline, falling into a deeper recession.   Management is no longer focusing on growth, but formulating strategies for survival in uncertain]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Palo Alto Merge Briefing]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:28:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The December 4th Merge Briefing at the Palo Alto Four Seasons drew a standing room only audience from the corporate development groups of large companies as well as entrepreneurs]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:46:21 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

I just chaired a conference in London, Growth & Exit Strategies, with over 100 software industry CEOs, CFOs and private equity managing directors and partners, and high level]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:19:33 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This morning I attended a presentation co-sponsored by Corum and PricewaterhouseCoopers.  The session focused on the results of the 2008 Canadian Software CEO survey.  This]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:40:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[November and December are months in which typically not too much is happening with regard to new clients: only very few requests for meetings, participation in beauty contests]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Energy Is Neither Created Nor Destroyed]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:51:51 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Every engineer understands this maxim but when it comes to launching their new software company sometimes they forget that the principles of the universe apply to management of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:39:58 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Corum is pleased to announce the acquisition of its client, Logos a.s., a Czech-based leading IT services and consulting company, by Ness Technologies. Logos’ strong presence in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:46:31 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Today I am pleased to be giving a presentation at the World Financial Symposiums’ annual conference in London.  If you have missed the WFS this year then make a note for next, it]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:47:25 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In a conversation today with one of our former clients, I was reminded that one of the most common accounting mistakes we see our clients make is the improper recognition of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:48:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Corporate development groups have been whipsawed on a similar scale as investors, going from all-in to all-out and then back again. One buyer, a private equity-backed firm, took a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:18:55 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[

·Clearly buyers look for profitable companies so anything that can reduce development costs is a good thing. Having said that, costs are increasing in most traditional]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:06:24 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In prior blog entries we’ve stressed the importance of proper revenue recognition if you are considering an M&A event. This is always a topic of discussion with prospective]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:56:12 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Latin America has seen extraordinary capital gains in the past five years as the world seeks for the region's natural resources and agricultural products. Combined with better]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining ]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:50:25 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[As I spend much of my time in the City of London, it is difficult to avoid the current doom-and-gloom.  Although Finance is hurting, this seems to have had only a marginal impact]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:45:15 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This morning we hosted the Corum 3Q Quarterly webinar which was well attended with software executives from 12 countries participating.   Our theme was “Tech M&A: Liquidity in]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:15:16 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The Selling Up Selling Out workshop is coming to Oslo on October 22 at the "Shippingklubben" Haakon den VII gt 1 from 9 to 17. 

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         <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:38:15 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We are facing one of the worst financial crises in history. The U.S. equity market has suffered mayor declines with both the Dow and Nasdaq down over 30% YTD. The U.S. government]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:20:37 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is John Melotte.  I joined Corum in 2008 as a Regional Director based out of London.  All my working life has been spent with IT and software.  I started in the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bruce Lazenby Introduction]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:14:34 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Greetings from Canada - the most wired country in the world and home to over 250,000 software professionals.  Canada is a hotbed for software startups and Corum Group has been]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Morten Løfsnæs Introduction]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:51:07 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Morten Løfsnæs, Corum's Regional Director for the Nordic countries. With years of experience from venture capital as well as software companies, I know what is]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Selling Up Selling Out Conference]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:57:51 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We had a great group of folks attend the recent Corum Selling Up Selling Out conference in center city Philadelphia. The event was held at the historic Union League building and]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:10:17 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Greetings from the City of Brotherly Love!!! My name is Dick Davis and I'm a Corum Regional Director located in Philadelphia, PA. Although Corum "Points" (that's our internal]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today's complex deal environment]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:03:09 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Those days of the guy with a phone and some inside contacts making deals are a thing of the past. In today's complex deal environment, significant expertise and a well defined]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do everyone a favor and make the RIF.  Please.]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:47:35 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the primary difference between a founder-owned and VC-controlled business?  Discipline, enforced during monthly board meetings.  Is the R&D process on track?  Do we need]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ryan Blakely Intro]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:09:23 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Ryan Blakely and I'm the Vice President of Research at the Corum Group.  In my 9+ years with the firm, I have had the opportunity to work on hundreds of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:05:43 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[According to Gartner, 90% of e-commerce sites will use SaaS by 2013 and by 2011, 25 percent of new business software will be delivered as SaaS.  It’s not hard to understand why]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:12:06 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I’ve been exchanging emails with a woman who with her husband is starting a software business. Their attention today is on raising money to start the marketing process and build a]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:42:09 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Guten Tag aus München! My name is Frank Berger, I am Corum's Regional Manager in the Beer Capital of the world. I am taking care of clients primarily in the German language]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:53:03 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[By law licensed movers in Oregon can’t give you a firm price. They must estimate how much they will charge basing their estimate primarily on weight. In our recent move, two]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:11:22 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[First let me say greetings to Corum Blog readers. My name is Lynda Tripp and I am a Vice President with the Corum Group. I've been working in the software industry for about 25]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:11:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was talking to a prospect this morning who was enthusiastically telling me about his software. It sounded good. He’s a great salesman and I love to dig into software, but what]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bad news is in the eye of the beholder]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:11:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was talking to a prospect this morning who was enthusiastically telling me about his software. It sounded good. He’s a great salesman and I love to dig into software, but what]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bad news is in the eye of the beholder]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:11:11 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I was talking to a prospect this morning who was enthusiastically telling me about his software. It sounded good. He’s a great salesman and I love to dig into software, but what]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:39:25 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We’re in our new home in Madras, Oregon and expect to put roots as soon as the boxes are out of the living room. Madras is not Portland. Population is about 6,500 and the high]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:24:57 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[As I sat down to write my first blog entry, I wondered what’s the most relevant and useful thing I could write. A plain vanilla bio or recitation of accomplishments seemed dull.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sometimes deals don’t close as expected]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:40:06 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hate to admit it, but sometimes deals don’t close as expected, no matter how hard we work. I had a deal that fell apart recently that was a heartbreaker, given all the time spent.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Introduction]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:18:29 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hello to all. I'm Bill Montgomery a Senior Vice President with Corum and for a few days more living and working near Portland, Oregon. By the time you read this I'll have moved to]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:08:37 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Hi, I’m Miro Parizek, responsible for Corum’s international group.  I joined the firm in early 1998 after nearly fifteen years in the software industry as a founder and CEO of]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:52:51 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It is no secret that bankers and private equity professionals make their real money on bonuses.  Comp structure is established around a set of goals and market assumptions.  What]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Introduction]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:39:06 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I joined Corum in 1996, after graduating from Yale, working for Morgan Stanley in New York and Tokyo, and attending UCLA Law School.  A legal education teaches the application of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Software M&A Right Now]]></title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:57 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[We are pleased to introduce our new blog covering what’s current in software M&A. Our 22 years of experience will help software executives gain insight into the market and see how]]></description>
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