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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Unprofitable.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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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.

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Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.