That's partialy a good news for many website as their affiliate programm (AdultFriendFinder, ...) was attracting lots of people using black hat technics to acquire trafic (fake websites, ads, Google bots manipulation, etc).
I tried to find a Merge and acquisition attorney/lawyer. None of them (the good ones) understand my business... Internet is too complicated for these guys... :( So to my experience, they are only of bad advice.
You have to find an attorney that you can work with. A deal at that size is large enough that minor mistakes could be really costly to you. I get that many attorney's have no clue about technology or the internet. I struggle with that myself. What I wind up doing is making sure they are a solid attorney, and I'll deal with specifics on the business -- basically explaining to them things I feel need to be in the agreement and let them figure out how to make it stick legally. I have directly been involved in a couple of asset purchases of my own companies/products. Not to the size you are talking, but I found I had to study terms a lot and push the attorney's pretty good, don't consider them the end all of knowledge, they are a tool to use. And I don't mean that disparagingly, just that they can never know every business or detail, it is our job to educate them and show them areas we have concerns and a good firm/attorney will figure out how to protect you.
You might be able to get some older sales/purchase documents online to use as examples of things to watch out for. I can share privately some of the "standard" clauses we had placed in our documents, but I really think you need a good attorney and CPA. As every deal is unique.
One other point, you can't stop them from using knowledge they gain from the due diligence part of the process. Yes you can put clauses in the letter of intent, agreement etc, but that just means you can sue them if you catch them later. Of course, they will claim they gained that knowledge independently and its hard to prove. This is why you limit the duration of due diligence. Keep it as short as possible so they have to act or leave, but not so short that you are unreasonable. Also, why I never had one, to me this is where a breakup fee may be worthwhile, make it painful for them not to complete the transaction, so that if they are just tire kicking to "learn" it still has costs.
I have mixed feelings... does the US know that many big cities in developping countries have better subways (automated, brand new, clean, without pee smell, ?).
Officials should at least be motivated to fix the minimum: like digital display in wagons displaying the right stations... ;)
More or less. I live near the most high tech subway in Brazil, yes it is clean, has no smell, the seats are comfy, it has doors that prevent people from falling on the tracks, and whatnot. But it still really, really suck
Want to know why? It is because it is missing a hundred year ( or more ) old feature: double rails. Thus there is no.express.line, it is slow, and every time something breaks, even if it is really small and.simple, it fucks up.the whole city because all.other trains must wait the track to clear.
And why it does.not have double rails but have all.the bells and whistles? Because the bells impress investors and stakeholder, and are cheaper than double rails.
Some stations. It depends on the line. Lines that haven't been updated to newer switch technology (like the A/C/E) still don't have it, and probably won't for quite a while.
>I have mixed feelings... does the US know that many big cities in developping countries have better subways (automated, brand new, clean, without pee smell, ?).
Yes, but those countries also believe in public works.
You mean in offence and grabbing other countries resources at gun point. True.
But it's beside the point. It's not like you are a nation of "spartans" that spend all they money in "defence" and live in relative poorness.
More like a nation of couch potatoes, which has relegated their defence to paid specialists (like in feudal times), and which spends more on pet food, Netflix and similar BS than they do in public works and infrastructure. Especially in areas where poor and/or black are living.
Rule of thumb: not too aggressive financial investment will make 4% on average. As long as the FED continues with "free money for all", the figures will remain lower.
Grab your excel and simulate your situation starting from the sum of your fixed and varying costs. Do not forget anything (retirement plan, kids, etc)
Do not trust people telling you you can make more usually 8% or plus. They are only employees who want to sell something or have an interest making you believe it is the case. The 8% is only a figure that our parents had. These days are over. Average is 4% (which also means that some years you will be negative!)
- Too many clicks to have the same results. (Canned responses are +60% of the work and have no shortcut !?!)
- Copying the email of the sender requires too many actions (you can no more <ctrl>+c it simply. We often need that to do some checks in an other application)
- Bugs
- The size of the Windows is way too small (We often send detailed procedures which are long. Shorter = user lost or more questions)
