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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Go do a startup.

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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There are plenty of folks who wouldn’t sell their company for a billion dollars; Jason Fried and Joel Spolsky are public examples from the bootstrapped startup world. What if someone offered you a million dollars for your startup, right now, check in hand — would you take it? Most, but not all. So let’s haggle.

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Selling Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

And that's when you open the Pandora's box of getting into process, procedure, methodology is the, you know, everything in the business running through that owner is the owner, got his hands on, you know, every deal, every sale. So we could go, we could spend the rest of our time talking about valuation. Now, that's what goodwill is.