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3 Ways Acquisition Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Starting Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

The team’s success centers on favoring the metric of “getting on base” over “swinging for the fences.” ” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

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. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In 2004 I began blogging. They go, “Oh, wait a sec, I could actually sell my website,” and when you offer $500 and the website might be getting 1,000 unique visitors a day, and you can get those 1,000 people into your sales funnel that you have to produce income, it could be worth to you tens of thousands of dollars. Increase traffic.