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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. However, they have failed to generate profits and the stock has since sunk to less than $3 per share. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Unique social networking product. The current market cap is only $1.8

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10 Tips for Startups Raising Money from Angels

VC Cafe

Deal structure – I could write a full post just on this, but some aspects that were brought up are the need to agree on a reasonable valuation, what investment vehicles are used (convertible debt vs stock, options and warrants and other non-dilutive mechanisms). What experience or contacts are they bringing to the table?

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

David Teten

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. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. I am not a guru in stock trading. For example, my dad wouldn’t touch stocks because he doesn’t understand them. I end up referring most of it out to my personal network. I didn’t need any.