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

YoungUpstarts

To safeguard your team from getting emotionally over-committed to a specific business, carefully balance the price being offered for the target, the strategic problem or opportunity it addresses, the likely near-term cash flow of the target, the integration strategy, the inherent risks and the deal structure.

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Selling Your Business: An Interview with Louis Crosier

Growthink Blog

What kind of barriers to entry and intellectual property are associated with your business? What are the main types of deal structures when selling your business, such as selling for all cash or for all stock? For example, is your business dependent on a small number of key customers? Are there key employees?

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

This is my least favorite thing in the world, being offered sweat equity in a corporate structure that is unnecessarily convoluted. I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which corporate entity owns the intellectual property and other assets? It hasn’t worked out well for me.