Preparing for a Successful Acquisition April 25, 2012

Next Step, together with partners SOAProjects and K&L Gates, invites you to maximize your company's value to increase its ability to become the next acquisition success story of 2012 by attending an informative breakfast seminar from 7:30 - 10:00 am on April 25 in Mountain View, CA.

You'll learn how to apply experienced-based insights and best practices as you develop and implement an action plan to increase the value of your company. You'll hear firsthand how featured guest speaker, Coupa Software CFO, Mark Verbeck, positioned his former company, Blade Networks, for a successful acquisition by IBM in 2011.

Mr. Verbeck's experience can help guide you to do the same! Learn how to:

Build value through sales and marketing approaches
Ensure work, legal, tax, and financial processes pass due diligence tests
Negotiate acquisition friendly customer and partner agreements
Retain key customers as you prepare for acquisition
Build a credible and defensible intellectual property position

A lively Q&A session with attendees will round out the program.

Official Website: http://www.nextstepgrowth.com/about/events.php