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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

YoungUpstarts

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services.

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

Sharing these pricing expectations early with potential lead investors fundamentally qualifies your conversations, but it also runs the risk of prematurely losing a potential financing partner, or else it can reduce options to maximize your fundraise outcome. And as my partner Rob Go likes to say, “Time kills all deals.”).

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Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions

Genuine VC

Sharing these expectations early in potential lead investor discussions fundamentally qualifies the conversations, but it also runs the risk of prematurely losing a potential financing partner or reducing options to maximize a financing process outcome. It’s like opening a job interview by sharing salary requirements.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

Gary Millin, CEO of World Accelerator, said, “We recognize that we have a vast portfolio of underutilized assets in our parked domains and are actively seeking talented teams to partner with for development. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

Gary Millin, CEO of World Accelerator, said, “We recognize that we have a vast portfolio of underutilized assets in our parked domains and are actively seeking talented teams to partner with for development. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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10 Tips for Startups Raising Money from Angels

VC Cafe

Are your costs per acquisition going up or down with scale? But here it’s not enough to relay on secondary research – get out there and speak to potential customers, partners and even competitors – gather evidence and interest. Bottom up is better than top down projections (i.e. Have a sigle main idea.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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