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What use is an investment banker?

Berkonomics

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. How investment bankers behave. For small deals, an investment banker will ask as much as ten percent, although the average is slightly above half that. Deal books are expensive to create.

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Do you engage an investment banker?

Berkonomics

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. Investment bankers sometimes slow the process by requiring a “deal book” to be prepared containing considerable information about a company to help a buyer. Deal books are expensive to create.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing. 10) Report.

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Irrefutable Laws You Must Obey To Forge Power Relationships

YoungUpstarts

Trying to connect on LinkedIn or cold emailing them won’t do the trick. He sat up in his chair and leaned toward me, suddenly engaged. There’s the story of an investment banker who arrives at his client’s office in the middle of a large deal. They could fill 24 hours of every day with meetings.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

We were also arrogant in the sense of we have this idea of how the thing should work and we built it … This was a little bit before Lean Startup was very popular, so we just built this thing that we thought would work and lo and behold, it didn’t work. Steve : Even though the old boys are not very old. . Wayne : No.

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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

Indeed, in a world of easy access to online documents, it is often this legal compliance which is overlooked by founders, as they attempt to stay “lean” and “scrappy” (and sometimes even handle the legal work themselves or through a web service).

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Arthur Rock, an investment banker at Hayden Stone in New York (who helped broker the financing of Fairchild) moved out to San Francisco in 1961 and partnered with Tommy Davis. Davis (an ex- WWII OSS agent) then a VP at the Kern Land Company got involved with investing in technology companies through Fred Terman.