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What if your business runs out of money?   

Berkonomics

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. A fast-growing but undercapitalized company is not highly valued in an acquisition. Such bargains; so little time.

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TeleSign Acquisition By BICS Closes, Deal Value Rises To $335M

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Marina del Rey-based phone verification and user authentication service TeleSign is now officially part of BICS , after the official close of the acquisition, BICS said today. TeleSign was venture backed by Adams Street Partners, March Capital Partners, Summit Partners, and Telstra Corp. The deal was originally announced in April.

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YP Holdings Acquired By Dex Media

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Financial details of the acquisition were not announced, however, DexYP says the combined company will have pro forma net revenues of more than $2 billion in 2017. YP.com had been owned by private equity investor Cerberus Capital Management. READ MORE>>.

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TeleSign Acquired By BICS For $230M

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TeleSign is venture backed by Adams Street Partners, March Capital Partners, Summit Partners, and Telstra Corp. As part of the deal, BICS said that TeleSign will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, led by current CEO Aled Miles. Daniel Kurgan, CEO of BICS, will become Chairman of TeleSign.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I’ll give you some of Parachute’s repeat rates later in the post. Get Physical!

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Need investment capital?

Berkonomics

Preparing for the game… If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.