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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

If you give $2 million for 20% of a company ($8 million pre + $2 million investment = $10 million post-money valuation) that has no product and no customers and it turns around 3 months later and sells for $5 million it would hardly be fair for investor to get $1 million back (20% of the proceeds). We get the mechanics. Year in, year out.

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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. 09:23): Sure.

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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

One of the best ways to arm yourself going into negotiations is to know this number and be prepared to blow up the entire deal if it cannot be met. That means you have to be that sure that that’s the number, regardless of deal structure. They know there’s a minimum valuation, under which you’re not interested.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

He only touches on them briefly in this article, but rest assured I will ask him to break down the details of each success he has had so we can learn from his case studies in future articles. It turns out Sunil has done a few things. As you will see in this introductory article, he has plenty of experiences making money in different ways.