strategic investment

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 22, 2017 by Chad Richard · across every show →

Everything said about strategic investment, oldest first

Nov 22, 2017
Insight
Founders Should Only Take Strategic Corporate Investment in Later Rounds
“So as entrepreneurs are considering strategic investment, I think it's something that they should do in later rounds of financing, and they should only do it if they know the company pretty well and feel very comfortable that that's where they would like to be…”
Chad Richard Nov 22, 2017 ▶ 11:13 20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
Jan 15, 2018 bullish
Opinion
Choi: Strategic corporate investments effectively build ecosystems around core products
“On the strategic investment side, I used to be more bearish on that area. I see it as a great way to seed an ecosystem around your products and services and have some skin in the game, so I'm a big fan of that.”
Emilie Choi Jan 15, 2018 ▶ 6:58 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
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