corporate development
4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Jamie McGurk · across every show →
Everything said about corporate development, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
McGurk: Pre-product startups under a year old should avoid corporate development
“And, you know, the meme was out there that, as Sonal mentioned, that you know, don't engage with the corp dev. And we agree with that at certain points in a company's life. If you're less than a year old if you're really kind of pre-product that we generally a…”
Jan 2, 2019
McGurk: Founders should only share competitor-safe information with corporate development teams
“You know, you should treat that as the type of information that you would tell anyone that you would tell an investor that you would, you know, use on a sales call that, you know, frankly, that you would tell a competitor. So you don't want to give out the ver…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
McGurk: Founders should build corporate relationships concurrently with 3 to 4 targets
“If you're talking to one, I mean, you should have a plan in place and not to put a time sink into it, but you should be thorough about it. No, not, it's not 10, but it's not one. So it's picking that, You know, to the top of the top, top group that you're most…”
Jan 2, 2019
Loftus: Extreme M&A anecdotes distort public perception of corporate development
“I mean, honestly, I think that one of the challenges is, is that the situations that corporate development teams are involved in tend to be sort of very high stress, very, very high emotion. And so sort of people have a lot of stories that bounce around the ma…”