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3 Ways to Grow Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you. You can either arrange an LBO of their business, or a mutual partnership that can benefit both firms. Growing your business will cost you money. 2 License Your Product.

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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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