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5 Things To Consider Before Selling To A Private Equity Firm

YoungUpstarts

After researching and evaluating further, you’ll select someone to represent you in the sale of your company. They will help you get the business ready for sale by creating marketing material, and then once ready, the process will begin. What constitutes the best potential partner to work with? Price Isn’t Everything.

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Are You Selling Your Company? Be Careful with Financial Buyers!

Scott Edward Walker

Moreover, because most financial buyers are set-up as funds (which have their own limited partner investors) that typically expire in 10 years, the return on their investment must happen relatively quickly. How Is the Deal Structure Different with a Financial Buyer? is not merely seeking a return on investment).

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10 things I wish I knew when I sold my businesses

Jeff Hilimire

When selling my first company, we worked so hard on the process of the sale that we inadvertently slacked off on business development (i.e. We felt the pain of that a few months after we closed the sale. Think past the sale itself. With the first sale, I didn’t have a long-term personal plan post-sale.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. . Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc. Not so much because of the chump change we made (my distribution partner and I), but more so because of the invaluable lessons learned in the process.