Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit? Show a breakdown of the intended uses of these funds.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO. That’s why investors want to hear about your exit strategy. Build a path to 10x return. If you don’t have one, or intend to buy out investors with their own money, you probably won’t get much interest.

Liquidity Event 243

Liquidity Event Startup Equity Venture Capital 243

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit? Show a breakdown of the intended uses of these funds.

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO).

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Gust

AUGUST 10, 2014

The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO. Thats why investors want to hear about your exit strategy. Build a path to 10x return. If you dont have one, or intend to buy out investors with their own money, you probably wont get much interest.

Liquidity Event 176

Liquidity Event Equity Venture Capital Merger 176

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama. Because Intermix was a publicly traded company (AMEX: MIX), the related SEC filings and their exhibits, including the 81-page proxy statement and 42-page merger agreement, make for good bedtime reading.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

I then discuss the journey to search for a product distributor who would become my business partner, how and where I found one, as well as the establishment of the e-commerce portal itself. Partner Diligence Finally, I learned that you should be very careful in selecting the partner you choose to work with.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In this post, I want to lay out the details involved in how I first realized the opportunity, the formation of the business idea, the search for my supplier, the establishment and growth of the business, problems encountered and lessons learned, as well as the exit strategy that resulted in the $250,000 sale of the business.

SEO 86

SEO PPC America Design 86

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

Investors and entrepreneurs are very excited about the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) model as an exit strategy for private companies. Reinvent Technology Partners. Reinvent Technology Partners (RTP) is one of the most important SPACs poised to achieve big things in gaming. Burgundy Technology Acquisition.

AJAX 107

AJAX Early Stage Acquisition Merger 107

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. Not so much because of the chump change we made (my distribution partner and I), but more so because of the invaluable lessons learned in the process. Why did we decide to sell the business?

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80