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You name the price; I’ll name the terms.

Berkonomics

The most striking example was the one hundred million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. Using this technique with a supplier And how about a product purchase where you cannot come to a successfully negotiated price with your supplier? What power!

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GoodRx Prices IPO

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based prescription and healthcare marketplace operator GoodRx has priced its IPO, saying late last night that it is offering up 34,615,384 shares of its Class A common stock at $33.00 The company priced well above its initial offering range, which was $24.00 per share, indicating high investor interst in the company.

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Financing with grants, not equity or debt

Berkonomics

I was chairman of a company that, for twelve years never took a dollar of outside investment. If you can finance your enterprise through grants rather than equity or debt, you retain control and when it is time to sell your interest in the business, a lower sales price will create a higher return on your personal investment.

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GoodRx Sets IPO Pricing Range

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based GoodRx , a developer of a digital healthcare and prescriptions service, has set an IPO pricing range of between $24.00 GoodRx is backed by private equity firms Silver Lake, Francisco Partners, Spectrum, and Idea Men LLC. and $28.00 The company is looking to raise as much as $1.1 GoodRx has filed to trade as GDRX.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally generated funds. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

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Is Convertible Debt Preferable to Equity?

Both Sides of the Table

Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.&#. I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. a priced/valued preferred stock financing)?

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Snap investment Hardworkers. Yellow investment SketchAR. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover.

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