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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

» August 20, 2009. Ask any of us who've experienced significant down rounds based on some or all of these things, and one begins to understand the cautionary nature of deal structures.  Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here! Lower values, higher risks?

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

As all good sales VPs will tell you, the compensation plans of the sales team will drive behavior, so it is critically important that you structure the sales and account management plans to align with the key metrics of your business: CMRR, Churn, and Cash flow. ► 2009. (9). Feedburner Network. Paperblog network.