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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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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. In lieu of the sale, they elected to go public and the $20 IPO share price initially valued Groupon at $13 billion. Questionable business model.

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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. We identify great innovative companies with solid business models and help them determine the right growth path for their businesses.

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

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. You don’t have a defensible business model.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Although I knew I would be working in (not on) the business to some extent, the work turned out to be more than I anticipated, at least initially. Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc.