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9 Ways to Prep Your Start-up for Sale

Paul Simon might have found 50 ways to leave a lover, but James Altucher has synthesized the art of prepping your start-up for sale in nine easy steps. Before you drop off the keys, it’s a good idea to prepare a year in advance by talking to the people you want to sell to, says Altucher, writing on TechCrunch. There’s no need to be coy, everyone dreams of selling their businesses, reaping the (hopefully, huge) rewards, and riding off into the sunset (or starting another company). So why make a secret of it? READ MORE »

Bubble or Blubble? TechCrunch Expert Weighs In

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington wrote an interesting piece in April contrasting the bubble of 2000 with what he called the “Blubble” of 2011–dubbed so because of all the “whining going on.” He wrote that in 2011 venture capitalists are fighting rising valuations by declaring valuation bubbles which the press dramatically promotes. In 2000, by comparison, no one knew how to value companies that were trying to increase revenue by any means possible, even if it meant spending in excess of the money coming in the door. READ MORE »

Lendio Secures Additional $2 Million in Funding

Helping others is serious business. Just asked Utah-based Lendio, which has secured an additional $2 million in debt financing to help match small business owners with lending sources such as banks and credit unions. Formerly called FundingUniverse.com, the company had just recently raised $6 million in venture capital. READ MORE »

GetAround Named 2011 TechCrunch Disrupt Winner

This week we’ve been following the TechCruch Disrupt competition in New York in which 32 start-ups presented their companies to a panel of experts to gain coveted exposure on the tech scene as well as a $50,000 prize. TechCrunch has announced the winner: GetAround, a car-sharing network in which you can rent cars owned by regular people by the day, hour or week through a smartphone app. READ MORE »

Startups Tell Tech Experts How They Plan to Disrupt the Real World

Monday through Wednesday in New York City TechCrunch is holding its Disrupt Battlefield competition in which hopeful founders and entrepreneurs submit their young, unseen start-up companies for the opportunity to try winning a $50,000 prize while launching in front of an all-star panel made up of innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists and tech influencers. Tuesday featured three Battlefields: Disrupting the Real World, Disrupting the Enterprise and Disrupting Streams and Collaborations. These start-ups made presentations in the Disrupting the Real World category: READ MORE »

Search Engine for Parts Flourishes After Ph.D Dropouts Buckle Down

While you wouldn’t think a search engine for electronic parts, with the name “Octopart” nonetheless, could have a warm-and-fuzzy story, it does when told by Michael Arrington for TechCrunch. It goes like this: Two physics Ph.D students drop out of school to pursue the worthy goal of making parts easier to find and buy. READ MORE »

One Start-up’s Alternative to Interviewing

The interview process is broken and has been for years, writes Jason Freedman in his blog humbledMBA. Freedman, who co-founded FlightCaster, a flight delay prediction site, says he never interviews people. Instead, he employs what he calls “mutual courting,” which is when the prospective employee is invited to work on some kind of a project with the company. If it goes well, the company is better able to define a job description and compensation package. The job-seeker, for her part, can make a well-informed decision about accepting a full-time offer after getting to know the team and learning the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. READ MORE »

Thousands of Users Before You Even Launch

Last month, social media start-up Kohort announced its upcoming launch and within days had thousands of people signed up. How’d they do it, considering the site’s purpose was unknown? Mashable contributor Shane Snow has advice for start-ups that would like to pull off a similar trick. READ MORE »

Crowdsourced Financing for Start-ups

ProFounder, a crowdsourced fundraising platform that publicly launched last fall and gives entrepreneurs tools to help raise money for their start-ups, now offers another option for raising money—an equity term sheet. According to Leena Rao, who reports for TechCrunch on the subject, one thing that makes ProFounder interesting is unaccredited investors such as friends and family can even participate and make contributions directly on the site. READ MORE »

Tag Archives: startup

9 Ways to Prep Your Start-up for Sale

Bubble or Blubble? TechCrunch Expert Weighs In

Lendio Secures Additional $2 Million in Funding

Startups Tell Tech Experts How They Plan to Disrupt the Real World

Search Engine for Parts Flourishes After Ph.D Dropouts Buckle Down

One Start-up’s Alternative to Interviewing

Crowdsourced Financing for Start-ups

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