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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. . - Unprofitable.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

Ask any of us who've experienced significant down rounds based on some or all of these things, and one begins to understand the cautionary nature of deal structures.  When there is the prospect of future rounds, sometimes evidenced by misses in the past, deal structures become more caution-driven. October 2010.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc. I end up referring most of it out to my personal network. I have not solicited one client to date and don’t plan on it either. I didn’t need any.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

As all good sales VPs will tell you, the compensation plans of the sales team will drive behavior, so it is critically important that you structure the sales and account management plans to align with the key metrics of your business: CMRR, Churn, and Cash flow. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment.