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3 Ways to Grow Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions. You can either arrange an LBO of their business, or a mutual partnership that can benefit both firms. Licensees will pay you an upfront licensing fee, as well as commissions or royalties on all sales, all you need to do is sit back and collect the checks. #3 Finding Funding for Your Growth.

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

Given Marc Pincus’s voting control, being acquired is presumably not in the cards for Zynga and a take private or LBO would be nearly unthinkable in the near term so there’s little chance of an M&A situation to arbitrage. That being said, unlike a company that has essentially zero user acquisition costs (e.g.

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