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Thinking of exiting your business? Explore every option

The Next Web

Initially, a trade sale to a private equity firm or a trade buyer seemed a good choice for shareholders, and the one with the least unknown factors. The following points may help you when considering your exit strategies: Trade sale. Prepare a detailed prospectus. Empower your management team. Pay attention to NDAs.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Everybody has known that for awhile, even without perusing a prospectus. Sales and marketing has been 30%+ basically forever, though undoubtedly Airbnb has enough brand recognition and loyal customers that if you turned off marketing spend then revenue would drop but not to zero. So Where Does Airbnb They Go From Here?

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

Helmed by husband-and-wife team Stuart (Director of Sales and Marketing) and Emily (Managing Director, Board Chair, and Chief Ice Cream Inventor) Philips, during 2015 and 2016 Red Wagon is preparing for a big “regional-national” leap in production and distribution—in part by taking advantage of a new public investing program.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I was still nervous because I hadn’t really invested that kind of money and negotiated a sale before, so I went to bed that night after I made the offer, wondering whether I was going to follow through with it. I saw them for sale and checked out the traffic statistics.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. In telling Amazon’s story in this extended from—not as mission statement, not as a tagline—Jeff got all the people who mattered on the same page about what Amazon was about. Decision Making. The white box CEO evaluation criteria—&# does the CEO know what to do?&#