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What Startups Need to Know About Exit Strategies

Up and Running

That usually ends up as something like “[this similar company] was purchased by [that company] in [that year] for [that amount], which was [that multiple] of its revenues.” ” The standard phrase in that context is “5X” for an exit value of five times revenues, or “10X,” or whatever.

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Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

The reasons are obvious – many international companies have their production plants in China, while others are dependent on the big Chinese market and any decline in the demand for their goods and services can hit their revenue targets. The same happened in Japan as Nissan closed its plants due to production slowdowns in China.

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Audit Committee Responsibilities for a Nonprofit Board

Board Effect

Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), there’s been a greater focus on sound governance principles for all types of organizations. All managers should be accountable for turning in receipts, using timesheets to report work hours, getting approval for travel reimbursement and having all expenses reviewed for accuracy.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? .

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So, Matt, welcome to the (01:22): Show. Thanks, John.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue. From time immemorial, or at least since programming became a profession, the creation of software has been a magical journey.