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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

There are many benefits of selling your startup through a mergers and acquisitions advisor. However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. Before considering selling your startup to a larger company, it is critical to determine the compensation of each of these key employees.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? Well, enter the Pre-Seed round, where the startup raises closer to $500K. Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people.

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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. How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e.,