Joint Venture Marketing: Reducing the Costs of Your Advertising

November 17th, 2009

  A joint venture marketing partnership is an enterprise undertaken by two or more people or companies, who typically share the expense, and ideally the profits, created by their union. Joint venture marketing agreements do not create new business organizations or third party companies from their unio [ ... ]

Acquisition Binge can Cause Indigestion

November 9th, 2009

  Over-eating or bingeing is detrimental to one's health. Similarly, over-acquisition can cause corporate indigestion such as over-leveraging, integration difficulties, cultural misfits etc. You are what you eat. [ ... ]

Hybrid Merger and Acquisition Model for Connecting Emerging Companies with Large Corporations

November 4th, 2009

  No risk, no reward is one of the oldest adages in business. This formulation of strategic risk was first expressed in written form by the Greek scholar Herodotus in 450 B.C. In the realm of corporate mergers and acquisitions, the challenge for many companies is to obtain a highly desirable product o [ ... ]

Tips to keep in mind while buying a business

November 2nd, 2009

  Being an entrepreneur was never easy. Starting a business up from scratch is one of the most difficult and complex things to do. If anyone ever told you that it was easy, then that person is wrong. But now, a lot of would be entrepreneurs are looking at a much safer and hassle free option of buying  [ ... ]

Merger and Acquisition Scenarios

October 31st, 2009

  A merger occurs when one company is legally absorbed into another and the surviving company takes over all of the assets and liabilities of the absorbed company. There cannot be any separate transfer of assets or liabilities to other third parties and a certificate of merger must be filed in the sta [ ... ]

Beginner’s Guide to Joint Ventures

October 29th, 2009

  Internet marketing is a long-time commitment between you and your online customer base. But, what is Internet marketing? At it's most basic level, it's the process of putting a product in front of a consumer, selling the product, and asking the consumer to return. But this is only the first part of  [ ... ]

Mergers, acquisitions, alliances, joint venture… Is one method better than the other one?

October 27th, 2009

  Mergers are when a company and another decides to join together. Acquisitions are when company A buys company B. Alliances are companies whom work together to achieve a goal together. Goals as in, to avoid compeitition in the market or to compete with other companies. Joint Venture is an entity form [ ... ]

How to Initiate Discussions With the Target

October 22nd, 2009

  Once a company identifies a prospect with which to explore various types of business combination, it must then determine the best method to approach the prospect. The type of approach can be even more interesting if the target has not initiated a public search for a buyer of its assets or a strategi [ ... ]

How to Use Investment Bankers

October 15th, 2009

  Acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic alliances very often include the use of an investment banking firm. The degree of their involvement depends on the extent to which the company’s business development organization is familiar and comfortable with executing various types of tr [ ... ]

Where to Find M&A or Joint Venture Information on Companies

October 1st, 2009

  Introduction Regardless of the type of merger, acquisition, or joint venture business combination transaction a company wishes to pursue, there will be a significant amount of research required to pick the right candidates to approach. A good research program saves valuable time and effort by enabli [ ... ]