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4. Invest it in your core biz. 5. Invest it in research 6. Buy other companies to extend your core biz.
by al_chemist 7y ago
4. Invest it in your core biz.
5. Invest it in research
6. Buy other companies to extend your core biz.
- basch 7y ago6a. Buy a company to get into a new line of business (Comcast/NBC, Yammer/LinkedIn/GitHub), a transformational divestment followed by rebirth (IBM, Nokia) 6b. Buy up and coming evolutionary competitors before your way is obsoleted by their way. (Red Hat, Instagram, WhatsApp, all the SD-WAN companies getting swallowed.) 6c. Buy competitor and dismantle it to consolidate and reduce competition.