YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Unprofitable.

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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.  When there is the prospect of future rounds, sometimes evidenced by misses in the past, deal structures become more caution-driven. October 2012.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

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. ► 2012. (1). Feedburner Network. Paperblog network.

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