YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

In May, the Indonesian on-demand motorbike startup Go-Jek managed to raise $1.2 Mergers and acquisitions with tech giants and corporates. Instead of expanding further, this group might be considered by corporates for mergers and acquisitions.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In this case, the convertible debt document doesn’t allow the debt to convert into anything, but at the same time mandates that upon a sale the debt must be paid off. Note that if the acquisition price is low, the holders of the debt may usually opt out of conversion and demand cash payment on the notes. Typical language follows.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! So what does a blooming staffing company need to do in order to implement automation?

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CPA Software Review LLC Technical Review 76

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

Take sales tax, for instance. If you sell a product, the state where you’ve established nexus needs to be determined, as does whether sales tax applies to your product there. Each state regulates sales tax differently, so keeping track of regulations yourself can be challenging.

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Ratchet Merger New York Engineer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Growth stage.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Reverse Merger. Although some reverse mergers are legitimate, many are not. No Net Sales Scams. Investors typically purchase these stocks because they the demand for these stocks are huge. Penny stock scammers often spread false rumors to damage the integrity of a company to get stock prices to fall. Mining Scams.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

This is known as an adverse demand shock. Recessions impact GDP, income, industrial production, employment, and wholesale and retail sales. This makes the surviving companies stronger and means that they are better able to meet market demands in the future. General drops in spending can cause a recession.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Growth stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. A lot of our customers brought their packaging back in-house, there wasn’t as much demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. We didn’t collude (e.g.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Growth stage.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group. As a result, Tencent depends even more on its online games to support sales. ….

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

The traditional IPO process does not use a market-based approach (like an order -matching system ) to efficiently match supply and demand and to discover price. Matching supply-demand through an electronic system is exceptionally straight-forward circa 2020. Most potential buyers of stocks are blocked out of the IPO process.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. Co-sale rights. The only way that the Series Seed documents will be widely used is if investors demand use of the documents.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. If you’re starting a software company, your exit is most likely a sale to a larger company. Source: NVCA.). Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to recent National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 20% of venture-backed startups now use this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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Exit Strategy Entrepreneur IPO Startup 289

Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

For convertible notes, the only liquidity event we need be concerned with is an acquisition of the startup in the near future, before the maturity date; otherwise, the notes will convert to equity of one kind or another, and the eventual sale of that equity (in a public offering, acquisition, or private sale) is a different subject for another day.

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Finance Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet Liquidity Event 79

Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

The hindsight is that by entering a new market your business may face cultural differences the marketing and sales teams have not been prepared for. Acquisitions, mergers, and the opening of new offices are good opportunities for capitalizing and moving forward toward international expansion. Easier response to demand.

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Global Merger Technical Review Singapore 52

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency. Marketing is at its peak.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

When a partner at GiganticTree Ventures asks them how they plan to reach sales of 100M/year, they have all the right answers. Shareholders demand it! So Frank Merger from GooBook starts talking to ZombiePlatypus. .” Joe gets Wayne Cofounder to join him, and they put together an impressive demo of ZombiePlatypus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to recent National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups now use this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. Takeaway : If demand has firm boundaries, aim for geographic dominance. Efficient scale moats depend on limited demand and geographic dominance. But demand won’t scale.

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Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). annual GMV. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product. The Road Ahead?

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Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

Transformify

JANUARY 24, 2021

Those businesses hiring remote teams face a common challenge – their service providers and freelancers demand to be paid in either local currency or some preferred foreign currency like USD, GBP, EUR, etc. Message sales@transformify.org. Creating Payouts in Multiple Currencies. How Does Transformify Self-billing Module Work?

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B2B Software Review Database Software 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Professional investors like to keep tight control of capitalization tables and all stock owners, to facilitate their own payoff when a sale, merger, or public stock offering is held. Payoff after a liquidity event is difficult and unpredictable. Challenges in crowdfunding will generate more regulatory costs.

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Equity Due Diligence Angel Groups Liquidity Event 180

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

We worked together to make some very significant increases in their sales and profits. This year in particular, there have been movie nights skipped, trips missed or cut short, game night invitations declined because my business demanded my intense attention. Image Credit : Marty Wolff.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience.

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Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

Times of crisis demand a thorough communication plan and strong leadership (and to be clear, the pandemic will be an ongoing crisis spanning the next several years). Avoid exploiting the crisis to push sales or promotions and instead use the slowdown to gain a better understanding of your customers and investors needs and wants.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. In further pursuit of this idea, I came to learn that designer merchandise is a high-demand market.

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SEO PPC America Design 86

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

His marketing and sales instincts and skills seemed magical and he built the company into a $400 million OEM supplier, ultimately selling the company to Unisys. We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. But this story is not about Convergent.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 276

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If the innovation threats the company faces do not match these, the corporation may need a different approach to addressing the disruption such as making a large scale acquisition, e.g., VMWare’s acquisition of Nicira , merger, or outright selling itself, e.g., EMC’s sale to Dell. W hat would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120