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5 Risks Of Buying A Business And Profiting Off The Opportunities They Create

YoungUpstarts

They make all the sales. The opportunity: Use this as a negotiating point when bargaining for the deal. If the business IS the business owner, then that person needs to be part of the deal. Structure the buy-out to include an employment contract or consulting agreement, as well as an earn-out.

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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. If all else fails, your advisor may be able to salvage the sale by reengaging other interested parties. Preparing for the sale. This is when revisiting past interested buyers can be helpful. Identifying key employees.

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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. In today’s world, it’s fairly common to run a limited sale process.

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

Scott Edward Walker

It matters because, unless you understand the motivation of a prospective buyer, it will be very difficult to make informed decisions with respect to critical deal issues. How Is the Deal Structure Different with a Financial Buyer? If you have never done a deal with a financial buyer, you are in for a rude awakening.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. In lieu of the sale, they elected to go public and the $20 IPO share price initially valued Groupon at $13 billion. Unique social networking product.

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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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Keeping a Seed Financing Round Open

The Startup Lawyer

But in order to properly accomplish this, your startup will have to keep the round “open&# via the deal documents. But remember that while a lot of these deal structures are standard — each individual deal is unique.

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