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The Relationship Between Startups And VCs

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Bocconi University aims to plug that gap and explores the role VCs play in the M&A market. revenues, net income, or EBITDA).” This is because VCs have experience and repeat participation in the M&A market and pre-existing relationships between buyers and VCs further reduce the need for earnouts.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

billion market capitalization as of this writing. and EBITDA margins are 47%. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M. market cap is 6x revenue and 13x EBITDA, so not insane multiples on a comparable basis.

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