Articles by Elad Gil
M&A Ladder: Position Your Startup To Sell it For MoreElad goes through different ways acquirers value acquired companies, with valuation ranges as of 2011: 1. Team Hire ("acqui-hire") 2. Team Buy 3. Technology Buy 4. Business Asset 5. Strategic Asset
- 5 Reasons To Sell Your Startup
Elad covers reasons to sell your company: 1. You are exhausted and dont want to keep going. 2. The founding team is about to blow up. 3. The acquirer is willing to "pay ahead" substantially. 4. You are about to get massively crushed by a competitor. 5. You need financial security or regular cash flow.
- Scaling a recruiting organization
This chapter from Elad Gil's book, "High Growth Handbook", covers: • Early days: your team as recruiters • Initial scaling: the in-house recruiter • High growth: multiple recruiting org roles