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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

In many cases, your advisor will identify key employees and create a business plan to help you find a buyer and negotiate the best price possible. However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. Identifying key employees. Source: Pixabay. Creating a business plan.

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

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop. The discounts?

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Not surprisingly, they developed a loyal following and grew rapidly. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. They only had 13 employees! Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Also not surprisingly, they didn’t make much money. Unprofitable.

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10 things I wish I knew when I sold my businesses

Jeff Hilimire

When selling my first company, we worked so hard on the process of the sale that we inadvertently slacked off on business development (i.e. It’s easy to get caught up in the dollar signs and deal structure and overlook this important step in the process. Be as open as you can when communicating with your employees.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure. The ‘A’ in company A stands for Advantage.