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		<title>Retaining a controlling interest in your start up.</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[Thank you for your post Innovato]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Thank you for your post Innovator7, you were not critical. It was in the spirit of educating the the new guy.&nbsp;I’m happy to have the opportunity to chat with highly skilled and experienced folks like you.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Soldu2,
Getting there--but not ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Soldu2,
Getting there--but not there yet.&nbsp; Right now you have something that has a current value of something less than a million that is just breaking even.&nbsp;
Here are some areas you still have to quantify:
you haven`t ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
I didn`t mean to be hypercriti]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
I didn`t mean to be hypercritical, just wanted to put things into perspective, knowing small business =&gt; small profit.Typical VC expects sizable sales of a startup to rise exponentially the first 5 years to at least $100Million before they inv]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
‘Hyper profit,’ in my mind]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
‘Hyper profit,’ in my mind, is relative to ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hyper growth is examplified by G]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hyper growth is examplified by Google.&nbsp; But even Google didn`t claim "hyper profit" when they make billions of dollars.
]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[The next question is why do you ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The next question is why do you want to retain controlling interest?&nbsp; Is it profit related, vision related, ego related, or some other reason?&nbsp; ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[The&nbsp;problem is you have to ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The&nbsp;problem is you have to have realistic and believable numbers to present to a potential investor.&nbsp; Consequently, you have to boil it down to dollars and cents within a specified time-frame.
Certainly there is a dollar value to the P]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[How does one valuate a service/m]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[How does one valuate a service/marketing tool that displays hyper growth/hyper profit&nbsp;in addition to great PR for the host company]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Soldu2,
The question is a very ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Soldu2,
The question is a very difficult one to answer without knowing considerable more detail.&nbsp; However, controlling interest may or may not be an issue.&nbsp; To answer that question, you must figure out what the true, realistic potentia]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Innovator7 definitely has the ri]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Innovator7 definitely has the right idea. You will need to compare the money they are putting in with the value of your company at that time. However, I wouldn`t be too sensitive to the amount you need to give away. The goal here is to create a bus]]></description>
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