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...
Category: Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs, Founders, Startups, Incubators
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...
France Financing Funds For FinTech (and other tech acquisitions)
Via Bloomberg: BpiFrance, an investment fund supported by the government, has called in VCs and other entrepreneurs to teach France’s top corporate finance chiefs about acquiring startups. The aim is to triple tech deals...
6 “Must Know” Truths When Raising Capital
An excellent piece from Erica Drake about the six things you need to know when raising capital. Erica takes you through finding the investors’ sweet spot, knowing what type of finance you need, and...
Tax Secrets: Transferring The Family Business To Your Kids
Or how to beat the IRS at their own game when it comes to valuation of businesses for calculation of tax payable when transferring shares to a family member. Irv Blackman of the Naples...
The Pros & Cons of M&A As Part of Your Growth Strategy
Making acquisitions is a popular strategy for growing a company when organic growth is difficult and it also facilitates a quick expansion into new products or countries. But, this article ask, does it make...
Why Venture Capitalists Prefer Missionaries to Mercenaries
If you’re looking for jokes about missionaries, you’ve come to the right page. But there’s also some shrewd and sage advice from some of the most successful venture capital investors including Mark Cuban, John...
What Makes An Investor Sign On The Dotted Line?
Whether selling all of your business or just some of the equity, what is it that really ticks all boxes for the investors you’re pitching to? Morgan Davis, co-lead of the Start-Up Investment Club,...
The Benefits of Buying a ‘Boring’ Business
While some of the article is a pitch for adventur.es, the author makes some good points about not wasting time looking for the next big thing but acquiring, instead, a “boring”, run-of-the-mill, everyday business....
8 Deadly Sins of Mergers and Acquisitions
Global mergers and acquisitions advisers, especially, the investment bankers are doing extremely well consummating trillions of dollars in deals as a result of cheap debts, ambitious company executives and desire for expansion It is...
Free Online Teleconference With Business Buying Expert
Ted Leverette of The Original Business Buyer Advocate, author, business buyer and advisor is holding a no-cost, live one-time group-teleconference during which he will answer questions from people who want to buy a small or...
How Venture Capital is looking at investing in Virtual Reality
The summary: Brands are investing in VR content, driving it forward for branding reasons rather than just pure revenue. Los Angeles is a hotbed for VR content investments, including those that go beyond games....
What can we learn from UFC’s increase in value from $2 million to $4 billion?
American mixed martial arts promotion company, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has hit the headlines again as it has new investors who’ve valued the business at $4 billion- a particularly noteworthy rise from its...
