I am conducting some research about venture capital backed companies
that were acquired by public companies.  Specifically I am gathering
data to determine if companies start out as LLC's and then convert to
C-corporation.  I am interested in determining at what stage of growth
do most companies get acquired.

I am investigating the following 8 companies (a-h) below and want to
find the following information (items 5-15).

	a. Microtouch Systems
	b. Phoenix Controls
	c. Voicetek Corp
	d. Data Critical Corp.
	e. Placeware
	f. VPNet
	g. River Delta Networks
	h. Packet Engines
	
	
I already have the first four items below on each company.  I want to
fill in items 5-14 on my list below for each of the eight companies.


1. Who they were acquired by
2. Deal type (cash or stock)
3. Deal size (dollar value)
4. Primary Venture Capital firm involved 
5. The Year the company was founded
	a. Was it founded as an LLC or C-corp?
	b. Location of company at founding
6. The Year the company was acquired
	a. Location of when sold
	b. Entity Type at acquisition  (C-corporation or LLC)
	c. Acquired company Sales in dollars at time of acquisition
	d. Number of employees at acquisition
7. CEO name
8. CFO name
9. How many rounds of financing were there and how much were they for? 
10. Names of all investor firms?
11. Did the company licensed the technology-if so how much at what price?
12. Board members at point of acquisition?
	a. Other board details if possible
13. Investment bank involved in acquisition-(smith barney, JP morgan, etc)
14. How much money was paid to the investment bank in the acquisition?

having access to things like venture expert or nvca.com or other
private databases might help.  Feel free to contact me for any
clarification.  For anyone that completes 90% of the project
requirments I will leave a large tip

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 17 Jun 2005 14:40 PDT

Hello tjgill999-ga,

I suggest that you close this question and post a separate new one for
each of the companies you're interested in. No researcher will attempt
to answer your question as you've posed it. You're asking tough,
multipart (14) questions for eight different companies. The price
you've set would pay less than $20 per company. I don't think you'll
get the type of information you need for this price.

Aside from price, researchers are reluctant to attempt questions that
ask about multiple subjects because they will not be able to post an
answer unless they have each subject covered. In your case, they
couldn't post an answer if they got 7 out of 8 of your companies. It's
much better practice to post a separate question for separate topics
even if they are similar in intent and scope.

Since this is the first question you've posted, you may not be
familiar with how Google Answers works and what kind of information
you can expect at the price you've set. Check out these links to help
you get the most out of Google Answers. Good luck.

http://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html
http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html

~ czh ~

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Clarification of Question by tjgill999-ga on 18 Jun 2005 18:48 PDT

thanks I will do as advised