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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

However, for many successful entrepreneurs, weighing all of the personal and financial issues that go into this decision can be gut-wrenching. Each one can provide valuable lessons to the entrepreneur. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Here are a few to consider. They only had 13 employees!

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

Tim Keane

Who the entrepreneur takes money from (see this post ) is always more important than the terms. "  The problem has been that too-high valuations and too generous terms have spawned painful down rounds that squash the entrepreneur and his early investors.    If the entrepreneur can bootstrap.

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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. ” Gary Messiana, Bessemer Entrepreneur-In-Residence and former CEO, Netli.