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Are You Selling Your Company? Be Careful with Financial Buyers!

Scott Edward Walker

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. How Is the Deal Structure Different with a Financial Buyer? If you have never done a deal with a financial buyer, you are in for a rude awakening.

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Selling Your Business: An Interview with Louis Crosier

Growthink Blog

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., LLC vs. C-Corp) can potentially save you millions of dollars later on when your company is sold. Fortunately, you can, for the most part, change your corporate structure down the road.

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

David Teten

foundries/studios, e.g., BetaWorks, Idealab, Accretive LLC, Lux Capital; see detailed list here. 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.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Ask any of us who've experienced significant down rounds based on some or all of these things, and one begins to understand the cautionary nature of deal structures.  Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « Whats Your Alternative?