Rolling up startups is hard to do correctly. It's easy to say that two companies would work better as a combined entity, but in reality it's quite difficult to do regardless of the scale of the companies involved -- you have cultural shifts to make, personnel who will need to change roles and perhaps leave, a combined set of investors to fit into the same size boardroom, significant operational disruption, not to mention the difficulties involved in pricing and structuring the deal, etc.So it's not something to be bandied about loosely. But nevertheless, I think it's time for more cleantech startups to be thinking about how they can team up and carry forward as combined efforts.
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Author: Rob Day
