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How To Choose An M&A Advisor When You’re Selling Your ‘Baby’

YoungUpstarts

by Larry Fontillas, managing director of the Americas for ansarada. For a young entrepreneur, the mergers and acquisitions process can be exciting and potentially lucrative but it can also be the source of considerable stress. It is your baby, after all, and you want to see it land in good hands. and abroad.

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5 Tips For Growing Your Start-up Into An Attractive Acquisition Target

YoungUpstarts

For many start-up companies, the dream is to one day become the other half in a merger or acquisition with a larger, more developed organisation. Start-up company ‘Blu Cigs’ was acquired by Lorrilard, one of the oldest continually operating tobacco organisations in America, for the impressive figure of $135 million for the merger.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. In his case, he built commercial buildings in Toronto, Canada.

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The Essential MBA Library

YoungUpstarts

Mergers and acquisitions are a messy part of business and don’t always produce the expected outcome. In this book, you can read about some of the worst mergers ever to happen and hopefully take away some lessons that will help you in your future deal-making. Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes by Robert F.

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The most important belt that the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act loosens concerns the amount of capital a new company may raise through the sale of securities in a 12-month period.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape. He also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Veronis, Suhler & Company and Cowles Media Company and held various operations positions at The Black Book.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. In America, the cost of doing business is very high.

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