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Mark Hauser’s Hauser Private Equity Spearheads Major Deals in Industrial Sector

The Startup Magazine

According to Mark Hauser, the rising costs of healthcare and growth of the aging patient demographic in the region made the company well-positioned for growth within the market, and in researching the company he found that it had a very favorable reputation and was in line with Hauser Private Equity’s mission to invest in stable, quality companies.

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What Do I Do If My Business Runs Out Of Cash?

YoungUpstarts

If the situation is dire, you may also consider recapitalizing the business through a debt refinancing or by selling equity. Conversely, you may be able to save money by bringing in marketing, bookkeeping, or warehousing. If the capital markets tighten up, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth: take the deal you have.

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Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders

Steve Blank

Startups that can’t find product/market fit and/or generate sufficient revenue and/or lacked patient capital are scrambling for dollars – and the bottom feeders are happy to help. While cram downs never went away, the flood of capital in the last decade meant that most companies could raise another round. Why do VCs Do This?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). When the company hits potholes, Flexible VC investors usually don’t have the nuclear options of firing management and/or doing a recapitalization. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Retain 100%.

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Survivors

Both Sides of the Table

I love people who have been put to the test – whether by market forces or even by their own stupid mistakes – and come back stronger. But markets don’t generally love failure. They know they can survive.” ” And more than anything I love survivors. It reminds me of the old saying on the topic.

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Silicon Valley Frontlines: Two Tales of "Working For Equity"

philipsmith.typepad.com

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Marketing on a Shoestring.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

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