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How would I go about selling my brand?
My wife and I have been running a baby photography business for the last few years, but we've decided to close up shop. I think one of the best assets we have is our logo/brand and domain name. A ...
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Set up an American corporation for a foreign national
I know a US citizen, I'll refer to as Frank, who was approached by a friends brother, Harry, who owns a mobile data account management company in Canada.
This company currently purchases accounts at ...
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Selling an existing business
I'm trying to get funding for a store front but even though I make > $100k, I have two new cars on my credit and I being declined "Too much outstanding debt for income level".
I've had a business ...
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Obtaining a barcode for selling pickles in the US [closed]
We sell pickles imported from India to US households. Recently we were approached by a distributor, who wants to sell our pickles to some big stores located in various parts of the US. The distributor ...
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I might be leaving a startup I co-founded. What are my options?
I co-founded a startup and have been with them for almost a year now. I own around 40 percent of the company, which is to be vested over 3 years. So far, about 1/3 of it has been vested. On top of ...
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Who should I contact if I want to sell my website to big company?
I am a founder. I'm planning to write a letter/email to sell one of my website to big company, but the question is: Who should I contact?
The CEO of company, the product manager or just anyone that ...
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Frozen Homemade Food Business
I want to start up a frozen homemade food business. The food/meal should be just like we make at home. The sale will be like membership on the website. For example someone will buy dinner for 1 ...
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Need business advice on growing SaaS business
Sorry for the long question, but I promise it's a good read as it includes a challenging topic on growing a bootstrapped business, which I imagine applies to many of you as well. I look forward to ...
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What is our startup worth?
Last year myself and two other partners got together to work on our startup. We got an offer from one of the investors for 40K seed money. We turned down the offer because one of the founder was ...
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How Much Can I Sell My SaaS Product Currently Earning Me $2,000/month?
I have a web service targeted at web designers that currently earns about $2,000 per month in revenue. It is a SaaS business and my customers have been with me for years and we are growing (albeit ...
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Looking to sell my reporting tool application
I've built a fantastic reporting tool that can be sold to small to medium size companies.
ReportingMate is the only reporting software I know that doesn't use report designers and allows developers ...
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Selling my share of a very small startup
I'm walking away from a startup I helped build. It's just me and my (ex) partner (walking away because our relationship has soured), and we have a 50/50 financial split, and I also have 40% voting ...
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I'm a geek, I'm alone, I want to sell my amazing product. I'm not a commercial. How should I do? [closed]
Here's my quick CV:
I'm a real geek: for 18 years between 8 and 12hours a day in front of a computer;
no girlfriend until 20 because computers were more important than anything else;
nervous ...
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Would I be able to sell this website I built?
I've been building a site for 2 years now, and am about to launch it, but the problem is I have lost all interest in doing anything with it.
It is a social networking/review site in a very small ...
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How do you know if a user is a serious buyer and ready to purchase?
How do you decide whether a user is a serious buyer and ready to make a purchase, besides prepayment? What are common ways to filter out users that are not serious buyers? Should I keep an eye out for ...
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What happens to the “Founder” status once I sell my startup
I founded and was running a twitter tool all by myself. I was the sole Founder, CEO,CFO and whatnot.
But, now that I have sold the tool, what happens to my Founder status? Can I still brag the ...
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Software audit for possible buyout
We are in the process of auditing a company with a view to buying them out. One of the key parts of this decision is the software they've written and modified over a long period of time. We always ...
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How to find a buyer for a software product company?
We've this 3 year old, profitable startup going steady
We sell web templates and web apps
Last 12 month's gross sale is over $1 million with 75% profitability
Staff of 13 people working on site
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Domain squatting Business illegal?
I was thinking about this, is domain squatting illegal ?
I've initially thought that it was illegal, and there are people quoting various laws and stuff that says it's illegal, but after looking at ...
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Asking potential buyer to pay legal fees
A company has expressed an interest in purchasing my one man startup. However, I've had this sort of interest in the past and nothing has come of it after quite lengthy negotiations. At the moment I ...
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At what point is a startup “sellable”?
I have an idea for an online business, but I don't have the time to actually "execute" it. Is it sellable if I develop the business plan, website, etc.?
If so, or if not, when does a business become ...
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How to plan exit
I have an idea in global commerce area and I am trying to develop it to a software product.
I shared my thoughts with several experts and got their positive feedback.
Currently, I am working on a ...
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My S corp is about to be purchased. Should I sell the assets or the stock?
I have an interested buyer willing to pay cash for my business. They want to own the IP of the business (which is all the business actually owns).
The business is an S corp and I have owned the stock ...
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Is it better to have more revenue with smaller profit margins, or less revenue with higher profit margins?
I currently have a web site that generates $100K in revenue per year with very little expense - hence most of that revenue is pure profit.
When I'm ready to sell the business, do you think it would ...
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Where does Woot source their products?
Woot.com sells one product each day. Does anyone know where they source their products? If it's overstock stuff or items that manufacturers want to get rid of, how would I get in touch with these ...
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Tax implications for buying out my LLP partner?
I am buying out my co-founder of our 3 year old company that we started as a hobby/second job. We are profitable (although you definitely couldn't live off the profits alone!).
Anyway, we've ...
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Automated shipping from warehouse or stock my own inventory for eCommerce site?
I'm about to start up an eCommerce site for health products. However, I'm unsure of how to structure the company, in particular reference to shipping of product. Should I buy my own product, stock it, ...
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How to deal with booth owners in a wholesale market? How to haggle with them? [closed]
Today I visited a local wholesale market. I want to be a trader so I visit the market. There are so many items that my eyes and my mind are dazzled. I don't know what products I can choose to ...
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How to be an excellent trader/middleman? [closed]
Any tips? Or is there a great book on this subject?
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How to find business opportunities?
How to find business opportunities? How to find demand or potential demand? How to find good suppliers? How to find the customers? Can anyone share some tips? Or is there a great book in this aspect?
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What is the contribution of a trade company? Isn't it better for a buyer to buy products from the manufacturer? [closed]
I think a trade company is unnecessary. It only lengths the chain. Many trade companies pretends to be a manufacturer, but actually they are not. What positive a trade company make? Why do we need a ...
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How to reconcile the unethicalness in business activities with my deep-rooted moral?
I want to be rich. But when it comes to do business, I find many people are cheating in business. If you don't cheat, you can't make a lot of money. I feel so sad. On the one hand, I don't want to ...
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Selling a high quality domain name
What is the best way to sell a high quality (dictionary word) domain name?
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I'm trying to sell my startup, how's my sales pitch?
I have recently put the technology and website behind my startup for sale on Flippa:
http://flippa.com/auctions/86405/ (auction)
http://redbirdapps.com (actual site)
The auction page has the full ...
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Time and money for early-stage merger (or acqusition) of companies?
How much time and money does an early stage merger take?
I have an unfunded startup. I am talking to a company that has completed their Round A.
It seems like they might want to acquire / merge with ...
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Selling my website - valuations, multiples, Current market metrics
I was approached by a potential suitor looking to purchase my website, we are still in early-stage discussions and havent yet moved to the pricing stage.
That being said, I am interested to hear ...
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How does one go about handing off/selling software business to another party?
I think Bob Walsh mentioned something similar in one of his blogs or podcasts and there are a few other examples around that I have heard about, but I have not heard many of the details.
(One is a ...
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How does one sell a startup?
Suppose one has a small, but profitable and growing internet-based company. How would one go about selling it? This company hasn't had a lot of exposure, so people might not just "know" about it, ...
