YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2019

If the business IS the business owner, then that person needs to be part of the deal. Structure the buy-out to include an employment contract or consulting agreement, as well as an earn-out. Listen to if they mention the business owner’s name more than the business name itself. Risk 3: Running out of cash.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

And, namely, they pique the interests of those in the private capital markets. Think of financing an acquisition as an exercise with two parts that work in concert: 1) structuring a desired deal with a suitable target and 2) obtaining the funding. Value the target acquisition as a standalone business first.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And that's when you open the Pandora's box of getting into process, procedure, methodology is the, you know, everything in the business running through that owner is the owner, got his hands on, you know, every deal, every sale. So we could go, we could spend the rest of our time talking about valuation. And that's gonna cost me money.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

I’ve decided to keep his name off as I didn’t get his explicit permission, but drop me a line if you’d like to get in touch. Are your costs per acquisition going up or down with scale? 10 tips for raising money from business angels. Bottom up is better than top down projections (i.e. Have a sigle main idea.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. Establishing this website cost me less than $2,000 and a ton of man hours, headaches and heart burns to go with it. Same as above. Again, same as above.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

There are a now a handful of funds, K9 included, that are Pre-Seed funds in name and practice. Yes, the infrastructure is cheap (to start), but the human costs have gone up dramatically. The amount of capital (and therefore the resulting valuation) also sets the stage for the next round of financing for a company.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

All names redacted.). Valuations. I was approached with one sweat equity offer that placed the valuation of the company at >$5 million pre-money and before even a seed round of funding. It’s often made worse because some clever people like to name the corporations very similarly. I’m wrong all the time.

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