Selling Your Startup: Crafting the Perfect Exit, Selling Your Business, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know - Hardcover

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ALEJANDRO CREMADES is a serial entrepreneur and currently a Founding Partner of Panthera Advisors, a premier investment banking and financial consulting firm. His professional focus is on small- and medium-sized companies seeking M&A advice and fundraising support. He has guest lectured at NYU Stern School of Business, Columbia Business School, and The Wharton Business School. Furthermore, he is the host of the popular DealMakers podcast where some of the most successful entrepreneurs share how they did it.

Contact him at alejandro@pantheraadvisors.com, follow him @acremades, and connect with him at www.alejandrocremades.com

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Praise for SELLING YOUR STARTUP

“Don’t sell your business until you’ve read this book. Selling Your Startup is an essential resource founders have needed for a long time. The world is awash with advice on how to start a business, but Cremades shares practical wisdom on how to play the end game.”
―WILL GLASER, Co-Founder, Sold Pandora to SiriusXM for $3.5 Billion

“If you thought product market fit, fundraising, and scaling your startup were challenging, M&A will make those efforts look simple. Alejandro perfectly balances both the science and art of M&A from the sell side for entrepreneurs in this book, bringing clarity to what can feel like an extremely complex process. If you’re a founder or entrepreneur, add this to your must-read list.”
―REGGIE AGGARWAL, Co-Founder, Sold Cvent to Vista Equity Partners for $1.65 Billion

“Securing the right acquirer for your business, on the right terms, makes all of the difference in your vision being realized, or it being stolen and crushed. Use this resource to get clarity on your ideal target buyers and optimize the terms for lasting success.”
―KEVIN O‘CONNOR, Co-Founder, Sold DoubleClick to Hellman & Friedman for $1.1 Billion

“The multiples your investment in reading this book can deliver are off the charts. Beyond the difference in financial outcome it may have, it could make all the difference in what happens to your company and customers next, and the opportunities you will have as an exiting founder.”
―DUKE ROHLEN, Co-Founder, Sold FoxHollow Technologies to Ev3 for $780 Million

“I know of countless startups who could have benefited from the advice that Alejandro has collated here. I’m happy that this book now exists, so I can recommend it in the future to companies going through the stressful and often uncertain M&A process.”
―JACK SMITH, Co-Founder, Sold Vungle to Blackstone for $750 Million

“This is an essential guide for all founders. From surviving due diligence to maximizing price and terms, to getting through the emotional roller coaster, not killing your own deal and setting up a great new chapter in your life, put this book on top of your reading list.”
―SANDEEP AKKARAJU, CEO, Sold IntelliSense to Corning for $750 Million

“I’ve co-founded and sold a number of companies in my career in the tech industry. It’s always important to have great advice and counsel as you make these key transformative decisions. Alejandro’s insight will help you develop better strategy and tactics to ace this pivotal part of the journey and get the most out of the opportunities and companies you create.”
―DREW PERKINS, Co-Founder, Sold Lightera Networks to Ciena for $550 Million

Aus dem Klappentext

Many entrepreneurs dream of the day they can finally sell their company and reap the rewards of their work and sacrifice. But there is little information on the acquisition process currently available to founders and executives at startups. Much of what can be learned comes from investment bankers who typically work with late-stage companies and charge a fortune for their services.

In Selling Your Startup, expert investment banker and veteran entrepreneur Alejandro Cremades delivers an engaging and easy-to-follow roadmap to the startup acquisition process. From the role played by bankers and financiers to preparing your company for sale, compiling a pitch book, building a target list, drafting a letter of intent, performing due diligence, and much more, you’ll become familiar with the practical realities of what “selling your company” means in the real world.

Perfect for founders, startup executives, managers, and other business leaders, Selling Your Startup is a must-have resource for anyone involved in setting strategy, encouraging growth, or engineering an exit at a startup. Even if you’re not yet at the stage where you’re contemplating an exit, Selling Your Startup shows you how to lay the foundation of a fruitful and successful endgame.