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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! Or worse yet they may never get financed. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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4 Best Business Brokers To Sell A Business

YoungUpstarts

The advantages of a dual agent is that this person is already working with buyers, so they most likely already have someone in mind to possibly purchase your business before you even list it for sale. What it means for a seller is a quick and easy sale because those buyers are already qualified with financing in the works.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Finance | Tuesdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. SALES & MARKETING. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. Fundamentally, we share the common concern that many of the new “Ecommerce 2.0”

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. You’ve just got to listen. Not really.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Venture Financing. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. Want to know our opinion on the deals?

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#KillerSaaSPitch in 10 Words (Part 2)

Cracking the Code

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies.