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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

There are many benefits of selling your startup through a mergers and acquisitions advisor. However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. Deal structure is equally important, and the right advisor can make all the difference in negotiating the best deal for your startup.

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Acquihires 101: Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

How is the Deal Structured? The deal is typically structured as an asset purchase (as opposed to a stock purchase or merger) — though the acquirer often does not actually want the startup’s IP and/or other assets. The appeal from the startup’s perspective is a “soft landing.”.

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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

YoungUpstarts

To safeguard your team from getting emotionally over-committed to a specific business, carefully balance the price being offered for the target, the strategic problem or opportunity it addresses, the likely near-term cash flow of the target, the integration strategy, the inherent risks and the deal structure.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part IV

Gust

a mix of cash and stock) received by other equity holders in the transaction. ” Mergers and acquisitions come in many varieties. Having covered just about every path a convertible note can take, we’ll finish up the series by looking at a few miscellaneous term sheet items and revisiting the pros and cons of different deal structures.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part V

Gust

merger or acquisition). Having come to the end of our overview series, I’ll discuss some of the pros and cons of different deal structures, more recent innovations such as Series Seed documents, and other variations in future posts.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. I travelled all over the world wherever business deals were happening, gained tremendous experience and exposure to the Corporate landscape, and learned invaluable life lessons in my career.