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A funny thing happened to me during my ~10 years as a searcher and CEO: Though I had an endless number of commercial problems and opportunities that required my attention at any given time, it was often the personal considerations that kept me up at night: Indeed, I rarely lost sleep over whether to raise prices by 5% or 15%, but instead was kept awake by the idea that even asking the question suggested that I didn’t truly know what I was doing. I wasn’t anxious about what mix of equity and debt to include in a letter of intent, but was instead anxious about the prospect of not finding a company to acquire at all after spending two years in pursuit of one. Though I sometimes allowed myself to enjoy the growth that my company had enjoyed, I usually left conferences feeling insecure and self-conscious after hearing other CEOs talk about how much faster they all seemed to be growing their companies.
Thinking back on the early days of my journey as a searcher and CEO, I was likely as prepared as one could be from a purely commercial perspective, though was woefully unprepared for navigating the personal and emotional roller coaster that entrepreneurship inevitably presents.
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Corporate attorney Kevin Henderson and EtA expert Sam Rosati discuss investor economics, including how to value equity in a search deal, purchase price vs. total project cost, different forms of equity investment, and more.
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