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IP spinout strategy soars (from Corporate Dealmaker)

At a time when deal volume for most transactions is anemic, spinouts of intellectual property from established corporations are soaring. So says Bart Schachter (pictured), whose firm Blueprint Ventures helps companies spin out unwanted or noncore IP. It's not the multibillion dollar, transformational deals we've seen from corporates such as Tyco International...

Posted on May 19, 2009 8:00 AM

Look who's spinning now (from Corporate Dealmaker)

In the past few weeks, a flurry of companies have announced they are spinning off a business or at least contemplating doing so. They include General Electric Co., Time Warner Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Credit Suisse Group and Digimarc Corp. Is it our imagination or is spinning out catching on with...

Posted on July 7, 2008 8:26 AM

Inside IBM's acquisition of Platform Solutions (from Corporate Dealmaker)

With news on Wednesday that IBM would acquire upstart mainframe challenger Platform Solutions Inc., we checked in for an update with Bart Schachter, a managing partner with Blueprint Ventures, which helped PSI spinout of Fujitsu Ltd.-owned Amdahl Corp. back in 1999. It's a story we chronicled last year in Corporate...

Posted on July 3, 2008 12:00 PM

Ocean Tomo and Blueprint rev up the spinout machine (from Corporate Dealmaker)

What do you get when you pair a self-styled merchant bank for intellectual property with a venture firm that specializes in corporate spinouts? A partnership like the one announced Tuesday by Ocean Tomo LLC and Blueprint...

Posted on February 8, 2008 4:17 PM