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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

Whether they were critical to product development, marketing, or a successful exit, each of these individuals can have a significant impact on the amount of money the business is worth. The first step in creating a business plan to sell your startup to an acquirer is to create a valuation of your company.

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

YoungUpstarts

To safeguard your team from getting emotionally over-committed to a specific business, carefully balance the price being offered for the target, the strategic problem or opportunity it addresses, the likely near-term cash flow of the target, the integration strategy, the inherent risks and the deal structure.

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Both sides must be fair in a term sheet negotiation.

Berkonomics

Just a few of these terms include vesting, corporate structure, governance principles, financing strategy, valuation and exit strategy. As an example, twenty five years ago, most VCs used common share deal structures. It was not until the later 1980s that the preferred share structure became popular.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Not surprisingly, they developed a loyal following and grew rapidly. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. This 10-year-old company offers shoes and other apparel on-line at competitive prices. Also not surprisingly, they didn’t make much money. Rapidly growing market.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. 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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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. getting new clients). Think past the sale itself.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

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. I would be very wary of accepting a valuation like this, simply because I’m not qualified and as a consultant, I shouldn’t have to be. Unseen Metrics.