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

YoungUpstarts

They manage all the customer relationships. The employees depend on their expertise and training. The opportunity: Use this as a negotiating point when bargaining for the deal. If the business IS the business owner, then that person needs to be part of the deal. The diligence: Interview customers, vendors, and employees.

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5 Things To Consider Before Selling To A Private Equity Firm

YoungUpstarts

The CIM is a document that outlines the company being sold, its history, products and services, customers, financial performance, management team, and growth strategies. These ten will be given an opportunity to meet with some subset of your management team to receive a presentation about the company in person.

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

David Teten

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers.

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Selling Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

The government, for example, often defines small business by the number of employees. because a main street business creates the connotation in our head of that small mom and pop kind of business, maybe with a few employees. Let's talk about some of the deal structures you've seen. So I like the term main Street.

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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.” This is my least favorite thing in the world, being offered sweat equity in a corporate structure that is unnecessarily convoluted. It hasn’t worked out well for me.