Why You Can’t Sell Your Business
A great post by a Private Equity Group exposing the reasons why businesses that go to them don’t get acquired – 997 out of every 1,000 businesses are not investable. And here are some...
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Entrepreneurs, Founders, Startups, Incubators
Top 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Selling A Business
In the words of Sam Levinson, “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” When it comes to selling businesses the biggest mistakes...
How Do You Value A Startup?
Raising investment money from Angels or VC’s is a lot different to finding a buyer for an existing business. Existing businesses are often valued on the profits they are generating. But how do you...
12 key lessons about tech M&A – from Cisco
12 key lessons about tech M&A – from Cisco John Chambers, Chairman Emeritus of Cisco, has done over acquisitions in his time and shares some tips – 12 lessons: 1. M&As Are A Vaccine...
An Inside Look Into A VC Negotiation
TechCrunch sheds some light on how a VC deal is negotiated. The terms that come up during the discussion and the various valuation related issues that arise are often a great mystery to many...
Upcoming Changes to Enterprise Investment Scheme Rules
Is the film industry likely to shortly lose EIS benefits? As with businesses that use EIS and SEIS funds to invest in assets such as property and machinery? Yes, according to Sapphire Capital Partners...
Issuing SEIS & EIS shares – 4 Key Considerations
You may have obtained SEIS / EIS pre-approval from HMRC, but you need to be careful about correctly issuing the SEIS and EIS shares. Vasiliki Carson of Sapphire Capital explains the four key considerations...
Hot Business List – Sectors Most In Demand Last Month
Business Brokerage Press publishes the latest of their updates on the “hottest” business sectors. This one covers July 2017. It is compiled from information supplied by the business marketplace, businessesforsale.com and lists the top...
18 Key Issues In Negotiating M&A Agreements For Tech Firms
Forbes presents the main considerations when negotiating the acquisition (or sale) of a privately held tech company – from price to representations and warranties around the issue of Intellectual Property infringement. Richard D. Harroch,...
M&A For Tech Businesses Is Just Different, Very Different
Harvard Business Review has a great piece on why acquisition of a digital business is like acquisition of no other business. They argue that everything you know about the acquistion process is a ball...
Evaluating Private Equity Firms Before Doing Business With Them
How do you know which private equity firm will be the best partner for your business? Rond Capital posts to provide some advice. Unfortunately for entrepreneurs, there is no “Yelp for private equity firms.”...
Know When To Hold ‘Em & When To Fold ‘Em
Advice for business buyers from NZBusiness in New Zealand: Buy a business, not a job. A job is one which generates enough revenue just to pay you a salary. A business generates both a...
Successful Acquistions For Startups
Following a very successful 2016, what lies in store for M&A in 2017? Yahoo Finance looks at what it takes for a startup to achieve an acquisition. They explain that M&A is not magic...
Deal Breakers – What Causes You To Lose The Investor?
Jason Shuman, a VC at Corigin Ventures has put together a great list of the kind of offers, attributes, financial flaws and other triggers that cause a founder to not get the funding he...
Thinking of Selling Your Business? Make Sure You Do These 6 Things First
Nellie Akalp, founder of CorpNet, shares the top six things vendors need to do before taking their business to market. Her tips include: Being sure that a sale is what you really want Getting...
The Best Practices Of The Best Acquirers
Via Merrill Datasite: Stay in the industry where you’re an expert Remain very lean at the top Never overpay for an acquisition, but be fair. Steve Townes founder of Ranger Aerospace in 1997 should...
