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Acquihires 101: Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

How is the Deal Structured? The deal is typically structured as an asset purchase (as opposed to a stock purchase or merger) — though the acquirer often does not actually want the startup’s IP and/or other assets. The appeal from the startup’s perspective is a “soft landing.”.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

According to co-founder Rob Walling, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, “TinySeed is the first startup accelerator designed for founders who don’t want to raise traditional venture capital. This is a legal framework designed to harness the entrepreneurial power of for-profit enterprise while preserving a company’s essential purpose.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. We are a venture capital firm with deep design and development capability, not a design and development shop that sometimes takes equity as compensation.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

As all good sales VPs will tell you, the compensation plans of the sales team will drive behavior, so it is critically important that you structure the sales and account management plans to align with the key metrics of your business: CMRR, Churn, and Cash flow. Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure. © 2011 GrasshopperHerder.com • theme by adazing design • hefty mods by Tristan Kromer. In a couple of cases the other person actually made out with a fair bit of cash and I got screwed. Brant Cooper.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc. For a blog that looks as simple as mine, I have already spent a ton of hours on the design. Yes you can laugh. Was I not happy with my career?