YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. In lieu of the sale, they elected to go public and the $20 IPO share price initially valued Groupon at $13 billion. Questionable business model.

IPO 162

IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Financial buyers are investors that are interested in a return on their investment business – which is the business of buying and selling companies. Instead of investing in the stock market or in startups (e.g., How Is the Deal Structure Different with a Financial Buyer?

Private Equity 59

Private Equity New York City Equity Deal Structure 59

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of giving me a valuation that I now have to negotiate, why not just issue me debt and let me buy stock at the seed round valuation (maybe with a risk premium) with that debt. If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway. You don’t have a defensible business model.

Sweat Equity 41

Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. I am not a guru in stock trading. For example, my dad wouldn’t touch stocks because he doesn’t understand them. Not to mention the quarter million dollar sale of the business as our exit.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80