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Are You Selling Your Company? Be Careful with Financial Buyers!

Scott Edward Walker

In other words, the business model for financial buyers is to buy a business and then sell it (or take it public) within a relatively short period of time. It matters because, unless you understand the motivation of a prospective buyer, it will be very difficult to make informed decisions with respect to critical deal issues.

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

Tim Keane

By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. 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.    This is fundamental to their business model