Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. In 2008, after working for that management consulting firm, I owned a contract packaging firm. Jack McGuinness: Yeah.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 16, 2013

Especially now, as I reflect on Wednesday’s sale of Engauge and the journey that I’ve been on for the past 15 years ( 10 years with Spunlogic , then 5 years with Engauge after they acquired us). When we were selling Spunlogic, the process took us from mid-summer of 2007 until March 26, 2008. An example. Entrepreneurship'

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. This is often in the 5-7% range. Total raised: $1.3mm. TechCrunch. Acquired by Amazon for $110m. TechCrunch.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. Co-sale rights. The Y Combinator documents were released in August 2008. Right of first refusal and co-sale agreement.

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For a time, Lijit pursued a similar model and having bumped into Federated in many a sales process we can attest to the strength of the Federated sales team. Federated brings to the combined entity a large and established sales force and the ability for Lijit publishers to access premium content relationships and advertising.

Denver 100

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We had been working on a merger between BuildOnline and a competitor called iScraper. My contact at ETF told me that Apax had called them and told them that they were planning to fund iScraper on their own without the merger and that ETF should back their deal rather than ours. That was our first year of sales. But we did $2.1

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.”

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For a time, Lijit pursued a similar model and having bumped into Federated in many a sales process we can attest to the strength of the Federated sales team. Federated brings to the combined entity a large and established sales force and the ability for Lijit publishers to access premium content relationships and advertising.

Denver 48

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. Advertising/Sales. Mergers and Acquisitions. Sales/Business Development. --> ENTER a CITY and/or SELECT STATE. Web Designer, Sales/Mktg - Md. Sales Executive - New Jersey. -->. --> Grab this swicki from eurekster.com. -->.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. This year’s data focuses on one of the same two metrics used last year price/EBIT (no price/sales data was provided). P.S. Bonus points for spotting Fred in a Darth Vader mask in 2008! – [Update 28 January 2008].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. The investors of our competitor agreed to a merger and we were going to raise $15 million between the two companies. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09.

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