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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Questionable business model. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Christopher Wallace is Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing , one of the nation’s largest providers of promotional products for businesses large and small. Unprofitable.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

Equity 78
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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

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.  the business, it will always be worth more to the entrepreneur as well as future investors, if any.  .  This is a confluence of bad events.

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

Cracking the Code

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. Keep up the blogging and web casts and we will keep listening and growing. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. Let me just say "Thanks". to acquire the client. Bessemer SaaS Law #6.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

BLOG About Contact Subscribe to Feed end #menug -->. While it’s flattering that someone might think I’m capable of immediately grasping all the complexities of the business instantly, it’s a bit unrealistic. If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. I have been following Yaro for over a year now and feel privileged to be allowed to write for his blog. I understand business entity establishment.