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3 Ways to Grow Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Social media campaigns can be incredibly effective means of boosting sales and increasing reach to targeted markets. Using licensees is an excellent way to boost your revenue without the need to hire and external sales force. You can either arrange an LBO of their business, or a mutual partnership that can benefit both firms.

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

Given Marc Pincus’s voting control, being acquired is presumably not in the cards for Zynga and a take private or LBO would be nearly unthinkable in the near term so there’s little chance of an M&A situation to arbitrage. But at what point does Zynga become a value play?

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Planning for a Harvest - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. Whether this sale is going to be an LBO or a Private Equity transaction, or a sale to a strategic buyer, the process of selling to the buyer is critical, and overlooked. » September 18, 2006.

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