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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Not surprisingly, they developed a loyal following and grew rapidly. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. This 10-year-old company offers shoes and other apparel on-line at competitive prices. Low profitability. Unprofitable.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

by Tristan on January 20, 2011. Kevin Carroll says: January 20, 2011 at 9:55 am. Tristan says: January 24, 2011 at 10:20 pm. Tweets that mention Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity | GrasshopperHerder.com -- Topsy.com says: January 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm. [.] Cody Boyte says: January 24, 2011 at 7:56 pm.

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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. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.