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5 Risks Of Buying A Business And Profiting Off The Opportunities They Create

YoungUpstarts

The opportunity: Use this as a negotiating point when bargaining for the deal. If the business IS the business owner, then that person needs to be part of the deal. Structure the buy-out to include an employment contract or consulting agreement, as well as an earn-out.

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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

YoungUpstarts

Think of financing an acquisition as an exercise with two parts that work in concert: 1) structuring a desired deal with a suitable target and 2) obtaining the funding. Structuring the Desired Deal. A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. If we find the right partner, we can be flexible in deal structures to best align everyone’s interests.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Yes, the infrastructure is cheap (to start), but the human costs have gone up dramatically. Q: How are most Pre-Seed deals structured? Engineering Capital. When I first began in this industry, people would claim that it’s cheap to start a software company. Those times are long gone. Mark Suster has written about this.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve been looking for suggestions for an initial deal structure that is appropriate for the theoretical case of a trusted dev shop putting in $100k in market-value of services over a 6 month period in time. HappyFunCorp employs 80 engineers and product architects. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder?

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed. We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company. Details here.

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