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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer

Berkonomics

There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer. Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales.

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Take advantage of the good times to build stakeholder loyalty.

Berkonomics

Although the investment documents from the previous round call for each investor group to vote as a class for or against new rounds of funding, in a contentious environment even a company in desperate need of new funding may find itself warring with its investors.

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“Where there’s mystery, there’s margin.”   

Berkonomics

But we were, as a class, happy with the fact that the computer and software costs had fallen so much that the networking costs were not an overwhelming portion of the computer budget. So, we called upon our local value-added reseller with networking experience, often blessed with an earned certification by Novell or Microsoft.

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What’s your business “end game?” 

Berkonomics

Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Accepting venture capital or angel money is to create a contract between the investors and the entrepreneur that the business will someday be sold or even go public to create an exit for the investors.

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22 Los Angeles Startups You Need to Watch Out For

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The agency is a full-service, luxury real estate brokerage and lifestyle company representing clients worldwide in a broad spectrum of classes, including residential, new development, resort real estate, residential leasing, and luxury vacation rentals. The Agency. The Camp Transformation Center.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. In Venice, California they opened a “Parachute Hotel” that let consumers experience the product for a night in a world-class location. Here are some ideas of what I believe matters. Brand Brand seems like one of these nebulous concepts to most people.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

Through inspirational content, online classes, and products, Brit + Co enables their audience of over 125 million to use creativity to shape their best lives. Brit + Co is a digital media company that inspires, educates and entertains real women with a creative spirit. Epic Games.