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

YoungUpstarts

They make all the sales. They manage all the customer relationships. The employees depend on their expertise and training. 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. Risk 3: Running out of cash.

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5 Things To Consider Before Selling To A Private Equity Firm

YoungUpstarts

After researching and evaluating further, you’ll select someone to represent you in the sale of your company. They will help you get the business ready for sale by creating marketing material, and then once ready, the process will begin. In today’s world, it’s fairly common to run a limited sale process.

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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. They had a phenomenal obsession with customer service and offered free shipping and returns. This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012.

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Selling Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

The audio destination for business professionals host Jason Bay, dives in with leading sales experts and top performing reps to share actionable tips and strategies to help you land more meetings with your ideal clients. The government, for example, often defines small business by the number of employees. 01:38): Yeah, sure.

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Selling Your Business: An Interview with Louis Crosier

Growthink Blog

During the interview, Louis made numerous key points regarding things you need to be doing while you are starting, growing, and selling your business, and then what you need to do post-sale. While you can listen to the interview yourself here , two of my favorite points were as follows: -1- Your choice of corporate structure (e.g.,

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure. The ‘A’ in company A stands for Advantage.