Sentences with phrase «selling companies for»

Essentially, this guy has been forming and selling companies for most of his life, and he founded Argentina's first ISP in his 20s.

When I say that, I do not mean trading big blocks of stock, but selling companies for cash.

At 27 years old I had sold a company for eight figures.

Kym Gold discusses how she disrupted an entire industry, scaled and sold her company for hundreds of millions and more.

Many times in your book, you're genuinely anguished at the prospect of selling a company for a lot of money.

An industry source told us last week that Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is going around telling people he hired IAC M&A vet Jason Rapp as President in order to sell the company for a price around $ 700 million.

You've sold your company for a tidy sum and you feel... sad?

My co-founder never sold a company for millions, and he doesn't have an MBA from Harvard.

Instead, Tompkins walked away, selling the company for $ 50,000 two years after he launched it to join Susie in running Esprit, a clothing company that (at the time) specialized in casual, moderately priced apparel for juniors.

A few years later, he sold the company for $ 64 million.

If Bain used $ 200 million of equity and $ 600 million of debt, sold the company for $ 1.2 billion and repaid the debt, that leaves $ 600 million, or a 3x return on the $ 200 million equity check.

«If I can't sell this company for what I want,» he told Manning, «then I'll take what I can get.»

Eventually, however, Kalanick sold that company for $ 19 million.

The company, which had been around since 1872, started to step away from legal books and began using the internet to publish their legal materials online in the mid-1990s, eventually selling the company for over $ 3 billion (back when a billion was a lot of money).

After selling her company for $ 1 billion last year, she started her own investment fund called the Pink Ceiling.

She sold the company for $ 66 million in 2001, and has since embarked on another chapter that's made her a household name: as one of the sharks on ABC's hit «Shark Tank,» recently renewed for its eighth season.

Our alumni have joined accelerators such as Techstars and YCombinator, have sold their companies for multiple millions, have been featured in Forbes 30 under 30 and are currently funded by some of the most prestigious investors including Marc Benioff, Marc Andreessen, and Tim Draper.

The disposables were an immediate success and Mrs. Donovan eventually sold her company for $ 1 million.

This is the age of entrepreneurship, when a couple of twenty - somethings can go into a garage, exploit some new technology, and sell the company for millions, even billions.

# 1 The intrinsic value is the actual value of a company, not to be confused by the «market value» which is what you can buy or sell the company for on the stock market.

If Kraft were to have sold the company for cash, it would have had to pay corporate taxes on the gain.

Management sold the company for a piddling amount of compensation to the management team, and reasonable compensation to the dividend - receiving policyholders.

Earlier this year, Viacom sold the company for pennies and took a huge tax write - off.

People like Russell Grigsby, the CEO of a nationwide securities trading firm forced out by his partners who later sold their company for $ 150 million.

Zuckerberg has said that he would not sell his company for less than $ 10 billion.

The agreement to sell the company for $ 40 million comes as a deflating blow against the smartwatch manufacturer, as it received much higher offers in the past.

Earlier this year, Ben Tatton - Brown, co-founder and CEO of RingRing Media sold his company for an estimated $ 20m after just 18 months of business.

To me, selling your company for some cash to an outsider is a bad idea.

duproprio and comfree are owned by Power corp in Quebec, and trust me, if Power corp was actually making any measurable profit it would never sell the company, and the fact it sold the company for just over one years earnings means it was hardly profitable.

The choices for business owners nearing retirement often boil down to passing the businesses to heirs or selling the company for retirement income.

Not exact matches

Amazon's dominant position in both book publishing and book selling means that it would be incredibly dangerous for the company to start picking and choosing, on moral grounds, which authors it chooses to work with.

Selling the business is the endgame for many company founders.

Three years after opening the Seattle Coffee Company, the couple sold it to Starbucks for around $ 90 million.

Reflective of Far Eastern companies facing roadblocks in reaching the U.S. market, Chinese mobile maker Huawei has faced troubles in the U.S. recently as a deal for it to sell its Mate 10 Pro smartphone collapsed.

The company breaks out grams sold by dry cannabis versus oils, which is not common across the sector, as well as the number of grams produced suitable for sale.

In 2008, Qualtrics moved beyond academia, selling its software to companies as a tool for surveys of customers and employees.

For years the company only sold its products in Ontario, but it slowly started to push outwards in 2003, when it began to distribute in Alberta.

Patent attorney and software developer Thomas Haines has struck a deal with Sydney company IPH to sell his data analysis businesses for $ 8 million, but plans to continue running the operation from Perth.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

Before becoming CEO of data management company DataGravity, she sold her last company, EqualLogic, to Dell for $ 1.4 billion.

An initial public offering — or IPO as it's most commonly called — is the way for companies to go from private to public and sell stock shares in their firm.

These «initial coin offerings» are essentially crowdfunding campaigns for anything bitcoin - related: You decide to start a company and sell digital «tokens» in your company to anyone online.

The company sells a $ 1,995 bike that comes with an attached tablet for streaming spinning and exercise classes live.

The company announced Wednesday that it will sell off the division to its original owner, Eric Carreel, the co-founder of Withings (which Nokia bought back in 2016 for about $ 200 million).

The rules for equity crowdfunding, whereby an entrepreneur can raise money by selling a piece of his or her company for cash, changed in May.

For example, an experienced media sales person selling to property developers may not find it as easy to get to grips with banks and financial institutions, or a B2B company that expand from the automotive industry to transportation logistics, may find their sales professionals struggling to understand what goes on.

The company's nearly a dozen employees help people sell their cars on consignment by conducting test drives, handling paperwork, offering financing and providing a one - stop location for any other car - selling needs.

The company, which has been looking to sell the business since April, said it would return 245 million pounds ($ 371.6 million) of proceeds to shareholders through a special dividend, and use the rest for bolt - on acquisitions.

You may still have time to gift or transfer ownership to children (or to a trust for the benefit of future children or other relatives) at a discount to the ultimate selling price of the company.

The Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley startup, valued at $ 1.1 billion, became the first company allowed to sell genetic tests (and accompanying health - risk reports) for 10 different diseases directly to consumers without a prescription.