rockin_rolla

Re:Getting beaten up in the acquisition – need your help on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:35PM (#13400983)

Wow, great read thanks a lot! Actually I have been preaching the "as soon as we interview before we have a valuation it's over" - great to read that I was right ;-D Thanks! Made my day!

Re:Getting beaten up in the acquisition – need your help on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:50PM (#13395826)

Thanks! We have a good lawyer - but he certainly focus on legal aspects. M&A advice in this niche is really scarce... You barely hear about company acquisitions this "small" and how negotiations went. We had a M&A banker (through a friend) essentially give us the advice "make it intransparent, sell the whole package, don't let them go after you individually" - but getting advice and having the balls is two things... Plus: if half of the team is like "yeah, but maybe we can try interviewing and see what happens" you kind a lose the negotiation power after all :-/

Getting beaten up in the acquisition – need your help

Posted by rockin_rolla on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:08PM
from the self-post dept.

Hello guys,we really need your help here - we don't have access to the expertise we need, those folks simply ain't around here and the time is ticking:- We were approached by a very decent company who got interested in some pretty smart people inside our team (small startup, product making decent revenue, good ideas to expand the product lines) - I know good meetings and bad meetings - when we...

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