Category: Tips & Tricks

7 Landmark Tech Deal Toys

September 10, 2017 by David Parry

An LBO. A British cop. A flying taxi. Two Facebook rejects. See these stories, and more, as we unfurl our gallery of landmark tech deal toys. Michael Dell managed to upstage the $25 billion LBO in which he took his company private in...

Landmark IPO Deal Toys: Part 3 of 3

January 11, 2017 by David Parry

Any retrospective of landmark IPO deal toys runs the risk of appearing, well, ill-timed---maybe even tone-deaf. But if you checked out the earlier posts in this series, you know that many of these pieces make for interesting cultural artifacts in...

More Landmark IPO Deal Toys: Featuring Steven Seagal!

November 30, 2016 by David Parry

Mao Zedong. Vladimir Putin. Steven Seagal. What do they have in common? Undoubtedly very little---other than maybe appearing in the gallery below. Be sure to check out as well our earlier collection of landmark IPO deal toys (as well as...

Australia and New Zealand Deal Toys: Trolls, Sneaker Frenzies & More!

September 2, 2016 by David Parry

Wait a minute. Hong Kong gamers? German sneakers? Brazilian gold mines? Hollywood movies? What's all this got to do with Australia and New Zealand? See for yourself. Take a quick check of our gallery of recent Australia/New...

European Deal Toy Highlights: Private Jets, Robots, & Giant Cranes

August 17, 2016 by David Parry

There is a unifying thread in this gallery highlighting recent European deal toys. What that unifying thread might be exactly isn't readily apparent---beyond maybe the fact that we may simply have liked the deal toys shown here, and also found...

Innovative Asian Deal Toys Inspired by Japan, China, Korea, and More

July 27, 2016 by David Parry

From Tokyo office towers to subsea construction... The gallery below highlights an array of recent Asian deals----including those in the transport, real estate, retail, energy, and cosmetics industries. Star Asia is a Tokyo-based REIT. Big...

Currency-Themed Deal Toys: Unique Designs for Financial Milestones

July 21, 2016 by David Parry

There are a couple of relatively subtle ways you can differentiate Conor McGregor and fellow Irishman William Butler Yeats. Only one of them knocked out Jose Aldo in Las Vegas in 13 seconds. Only one of them won a Nobel Prize in...

Deal Toy Highlights: Cool Apps & Their Companies

July 7, 2016 by David Parry

Yes, you've probably already heard of "that" app. Maybe it's the one that purports to reveal a watermelon's ripeness. (Melon Meter) Or lets you swallow a sword. (iSword) Or crowd-source real-time feedback and pointers during a date....

IB Deals On Tap: More Beer-Themed Deal Toys!

June 27, 2016 by David Parry

Nothing to celebrate? There has to be something out there for us. After all, Cleveland just won a championship...finally. Euro 2016 has 8 countries still alive. Ramsey Bolton, on the other hand, is pretty much dead. And no one (so far at...