YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Questionable business model. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. . - Unprofitable. This company has been one of the more amazing buyout success stories. They only had 13 employees! Unprofitable.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 20, 2009

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.  the business, it will always be worth more to the entrepreneur as well as future investors, if any.  .  This is a confluence of bad events.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. For a direct, enterprise sales business model, these thresholds are likely to be around $80,000-100,000 CMRR (approx. $1-1.2M Michael Kassing.

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