Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Additionally, I had already studied Economics and Finance during undergrad, making the academic part of an MBA seem a little redundant. The fundraising process may start with friends and family, but may quickly shift to a bank loan, individual angel investors, or at a later stage, venture capital or private equity.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

Compounding this problem is the fact that, with no IPO options, the consideration paid for companies in trade sales—acquisition by larger companies—has been declining. This problem goes way beyond venture capital—as 47% of all IPO’s since 1991 were backed by neither VC’s or private equity firms—this is an American problem.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. Offering too little in an acquisition to satisfy the seller? But I learned it again and again in my various business lives.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

From the seller’s perspective, the first step in connection with the sale of his company is the negotiation and execution of a confidentiality agreement (sometimes referred to as a “non-disclosure agreement” or an “NDA”) with the potential buyer. Mistake #2: Not Negotiating the Material Terms of the Sale in the Letter of Intent.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

After graduating college, I spent several years on Wall Street, first at a large investment bank working on M&A for large corporate clients, then as a private equity professional helping invest hundreds of millions of dollars in private companies. Customer acquisition will be harder than expected.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

Almost every day comes barely able to believe valuations on technology company financings, acquisitions, and public offerings. And when asset values go up, when purchase and sales transactions occur that result in huge capital gains, when people are working and earning good wages, Tax Receipts increase too.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2017

Rising public markets, with big companies flush with fresh equity and thus able to more assertively pursue growth-by-acquisition strategies, creates a virtuous trickle-down effect on valuations and business sale probabilities for even the smallest of firms. Launch that new sales campaign. Speed Everything Up.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

acquisition. Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I was a Finance major in college with a concentration in real estate, but even during my studies I constantly experimented with entrepreneurship, at one point helping Between The Bread launch an e-commerce bakery as an offshoot to their core business, which was a pretty novel concept at the time. Tell us about your business background.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Before joining Track.com as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Savage served as Managing Director of FX Macro Sales at Goldman Sachs, where he published widely-read and insightful research focused on the foreign exchange markets and the macroeconomic environment. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. This year’s data focuses on one of the same two metrics used last year price/EBIT (no price/sales data was provided). I use figures like that as 3rd party data when discussing valuations.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. And I really believe I can do, on the sales part, so much more if I have additional people. After that, I did it for a private equity firm then we became a part of a larger corporation.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

These folks are accessible across any industry and are particularly useful for entrepreneurs who have moved beyond the seed stage of financing, but don’t yet have the significant revenue needed to court venture capital funding. Solid Organizational Processes. You Have Positive Cash Flow.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service.

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