YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the company’s founding team members, and those they hire at the ground zero stage of development. Place your bets on an entrepreneur who has the guts to pivot, restructure, bounce back, and the stamina to re-orientate his business when profitability starts to seem bleak.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 15, 2022
Deal structure is equally important, and the right advisor can make all the difference in negotiating the best deal for your startup. As an entrepreneur, you already built a marketable startup. In order to reduce the stress, hiring an M&A advisor will be invaluable. Hiring a Mergers and Acquisitions advisor.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 17, 2019
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. If you remove the owner, the business struggles and collapses.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. The Aqui-hire Business. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. Hire legions of young, impressionable graduates from the top engineering universities.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
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. Most firms that do decide to take equity do so because their risk is far reduced when compared to that of the entrepreneur, or that of the traditional cash investor.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
He is also a serial fintech entrepreneur with two exits; Founder of HBS Alumni Angels of NY , the largest angel group on the East Coast; and Founder of PEVCTech.com , an online community for investors in private companies who use technology to do their jobs more effectively. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 27, 2011
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? Type-A workaholics like me (and most successful entrepreneurs?) At what price?
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