YoungUpstarts
MAY 17, 2019
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. Structure the buy-out to include an employment contract or consulting agreement, as well as an earn-out.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
I know the buyers try the best to believe that [insert well known founder name here. 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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Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
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.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. I’ve been looking for suggestions for an initial deal structure that is appropriate for the theoretical case of a trusted dev shop putting in $100k in market-value of services over a 6 month period in time. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.
grasshopperherder.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
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.” All names redacted.). It’s often made worse because some clever people like to name the corporations very similarly. If you think I’m wrong, awesome.
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