A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Build your own Startup Death Clock

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In Part 1 I explained how it’s senseless for small companies to compute “one correct value&# for the company, but rather that buyers and sellers must be considered separately. I covered the buyer side there; now let’s tackle the seller. Are you willing to sell your baby? At what price?

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How to value your company for sale (Part 1)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale.

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