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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

There are many benefits of selling your startup through a mergers and acquisitions advisor. However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. Source: Pixabay.

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

YoungUpstarts

Why start from scratch when you can get a great deal on what someone else started? In today’s sexy startup culture, buying an existing business has lost its vogue. They make all the sales. The opportunity: Use this as a negotiating point when bargaining for the deal. They manage all the customer relationships.

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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. For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. Today, many startups are succumbing to the temptation to sell their companies early. Here are a few to consider.

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

Scott Edward Walker

Instead of investing in the stock market or in startups (e.g., 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?

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Keeping a Seed Financing Round Open

The Startup Lawyer

Startups don’t want to wait until every investor is ready before closing on a seed financing round. Second, what startup wants to wait on cash? But in order to properly accomplish this, your startup will have to keep the round “open&# via the deal documents.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part IV

Gust

For convertible notes, the only liquidity event we need be concerned with is an acquisition of the startup in the near future, before the maturity date; otherwise, the notes will convert to equity of one kind or another, and the eventual sale of that equity (in a public offering, acquisition, or private sale) is a different subject for another day.

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Selling Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

The audio destination for business professionals host Jason Bay, dives in with leading sales experts and top performing reps to share actionable tips and strategies to help you land more meetings with your ideal clients. The reason people pay for goodwill is to avoid the danger and risk of a startup. Now, that's what goodwill is.