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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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5 Risks Of Buying A Business And Profiting Off The Opportunities They Create

YoungUpstarts

Why start from scratch when you can get a great deal on what someone else started? But every year thousands of entrepreneurs become millionaires by buying and growing businesses without the startup headaches of venture capitalists, zero revenue, and no business processes. The employees depend on their expertise and training.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. And wants to structure a huge payout for the employees that will remain. I know many rank-and-file employees. For the 200 new employees they’ll get through acquihires do they unleash 2,000 unhappy existing employees?

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

However, for many successful entrepreneurs, weighing all of the personal and financial issues that go into this decision can be gut-wrenching. Each one can provide valuable lessons to the entrepreneur. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. They only had 13 employees! Here are a few to consider.

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Selling Your Business: An Interview with Louis Crosier

Growthink Blog

Among other impressive accomplishments, Louis is the author of "Selling Your Business: The Transition from Entrepreneur to Investor." Specifically, Louis is an expert on helping entrepreneurs realize their financial dreams by selling their businesses and investing their proceeds wisely. Are there key employees?

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

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop?

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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Most entrepreneurs would love to be in a position to have to decide! You’re skipping a step — trying to decide if the deal is even plausible — but how can you decide that if all you’re doing is thinking about the other side? Do you prefer Deal B? Are you willing to sell your baby? At what price?

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