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Git Acquired

The developer's guide to getting acquired

Learn how to get through the acquisition process with the best financial outcome

Written by an M&A insider

Technology companies are cash rich and time poor. When they want to enter new markets, improve existing features or grow revenue it's often faster and more efficient to acquire.

Git Acquired is written by an M&A insider who's spent over a decade researching, designing and developing new products... before making acquisitions when that turned out to be too hard.

This book is designed to lift the lid on what makes an acquisition target compelling in the eyes of an acquirer, what the M&A process entails and how to come through it with the best financial return for the time you've invested.



What's in the book?


1. Welcome to M&A – an introduction

Once upon a time software was sold on contract and built to specification. Somewhere along the line that all changed.

Today, you can spend your spare time developing a solution to a work problem, release it Open Source and before you know it, have a whole community of other developers (and their organisations) relying on your code. Now you have two full-time jobs.

In "Welcome to M&A" we introduce acquistion as an option for getting paid for the time you've already put in and the value your users are already getting out.

In this section
  • What's coming up
  • Who this book is for (and what we assume)
  • Why the author is a relevant source of information
  • The whole point of acquisitions
  • The motivations and models behind acquisitions
  • Acquirers, getting acquired and profitability
  • Planning for an acquisition before you’re ready to sell

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