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5 Things To Consider Before Selling To A Private Equity Firm

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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. Those ten potential buyers will most likely be asked to present refreshed bids as part of the sales process not too long after the management presentations are completed.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The CLTV is the net present value of the recurring profit streams of a given customer less the acquisition cost. For sales, they should be paid on new CMRR with a standard deal structure (such as a one year deal, with quarterly pre-payments), and incentives for more favorable cash flow terms (such as multi-year pre-payments).