Comments on: A new liquidity event http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:04:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Quotable (10) | Information Center http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-374110 Quotable (10) | Information Center Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:53:37 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-374110 [...] reason it is done is liquidity for the founders and investors.”Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine, on the certainty that things will go wrong when a big company buys a clever little [...] [...] reason it is done is liquidity for the founders and investors.”Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine, on the certainty that things will go wrong when a big company buys a clever little [...]

]]> By: roger rainey http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373126 roger rainey Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:34:31 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373126 SilverLake not Carlyle. SilverLake not Carlyle.

]]> By: Steve Hochschild http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373112 Steve Hochschild Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:11:29 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373112 The best match for this notion might be the CML Group, which was founded on the premise of buying small companies and letting them continue to be managed by their founders. Boston Whaler, NordicTrak, Nature Company, Carroll Reed, Smith & Hawken, Kelty packs, and Ted Hood Sails were but some of their acquisitions. There was a business school case on this that used the name The Leisure Group, and I seem to remember that the founder was a HBS professor. They eventually got attacked by a corporate raider, but even before that, they became so big that new acquisitions of small start-ups were no longer material to the results, which messed up their model. All of this was decades ago, so I might have some of the info wrong, but my point is that this is a good concept that has been proven to be good... Thanks for the blog! The best match for this notion might be the CML Group, which was founded on the premise of buying small companies and letting them continue to be managed by their founders. Boston Whaler, NordicTrak, Nature Company, Carroll Reed, Smith & Hawken, Kelty packs, and Ted Hood Sails were but some of their acquisitions.

There was a business school case on this that used the name The Leisure Group, and I seem to remember that the founder was a HBS professor. They eventually got attacked by a corporate raider, but even before that, they became so big that new acquisitions of small start-ups were no longer material to the results, which messed up their model.

All of this was decades ago, so I might have some of the info wrong, but my point is that this is a good concept that has been proven to be good…

Thanks for the blog!

]]> By: Entrepreneurs Need a Portfolio Effect Too « SmoothSpan Blog http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373107 Entrepreneurs Need a Portfolio Effect Too « SmoothSpan Blog Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:56:06 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373107 [...] Jarvis is on a similar vein with this post.  In it, Jeff discusses Berkshire Hathaway-like conglomerates.  Shades of my Johnson and Johns [...] [...] Jarvis is on a similar vein with this post.  In it, Jeff discusses Berkshire Hathaway-like conglomerates.  Shades of my Johnson and Johns [...]

]]> By: What If The Chasm Has Moved? « SmoothSpan Blog http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373106 What If The Chasm Has Moved? « SmoothSpan Blog Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:54:50 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373106 [...] following each other around.  No sooner did I pen this and go to lunch than I went back to find this post.  In it, Jeff discusses Berkshire Hathaway-like conglomerates.  Shades of my Johnson and Johns [...] [...] following each other around.  No sooner did I pen this and go to lunch than I went back to find this post.  In it, Jeff discusses Berkshire Hathaway-like conglomerates.  Shades of my Johnson and Johns [...]

]]> By: Bob Warfield http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373105 Bob Warfield Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:50:54 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/10/a-new-liquidity-event/#comment-373105 Now that is serendipity. I read your other post about MicroHoo, put it together with Fred's post on liquidity, and got to wondering, What if Moore's Chasm has Moved?: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/what-if-the-chasm-has-only-moved/ Then I thought about it some more and wrote Entrepreneurs Need a Portfolio Effect Too: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/entrepreneurs-need-a-portfolio-effect-too/ In it, I comment that there are no Johnson and Johnson decentralized conglomerates in Tech, with the possible exception of Cisco. Strangely reminiscent of this excellent post! Cheers, BW Now that is serendipity. I read your other post about MicroHoo, put it together with Fred’s post on liquidity, and got to wondering, What if Moore’s Chasm has Moved?:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/what-if-the-chasm-has-only-moved/

Then I thought about it some more and wrote Entrepreneurs Need a Portfolio Effect Too:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/entrepreneurs-need-a-portfolio-effect-too/

In it, I comment that there are no Johnson and Johnson decentralized conglomerates in Tech, with the possible exception of Cisco. Strangely reminiscent of this excellent post!

Cheers,

BW

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