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Watch our new Client Success Story with Suzanne Mitchell, Founder of See Yourself Health below.

Now you just need to negotiate, structure and close on the sale of your business. Below are some tips to help you to minimize the risks and maximize the rewards of your M&A transaction:

Congratulations! You turned what once were only dreams into a thriving business venture. It took more effort than you ever imagined, yet you have created a valuable company that others are willing to pay a premium to acquire. Now you just need to negotiate, structure and close on the sale of your business. Below are some tips to help you to minimize the risks and maximize the rewards of your M&A transaction:

Interview with Tom Lazay, Co-Founder and General Partner, Companyon Ventures Hi I’m Tom Lazay Co-Founder and General Partner at Companyon Ventures. We’re a venture capital firm based in Boston, investing in B2B software companies at the post-seed pre-A stage. Tell Us About Your Journey I got into entrepreneurship starting in undergrad with a classmate of […]

In our article on SAFEs vs Convertible Notes, we referenced the “friends and family” rounds as the most common way founders first raise money. At this stage, individuals are primarily writing checks because they love and trust you, and little to do with your business idea or any expectation of actually making money. Every penny from this precious purse must be spent wisely to build the business.

Interview with Tom Meyer, Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures Group Hi, I’m Tom Meyer, Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures Group, Nassau Street Ventures. We invest in all types of companies, all stages, sectors and geographies. Tell Us About Your Journey I’m lucky. I had a lot of opportunities growing up. Before I got here, I […]

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Since the inception of Massachusetts’ income tax, the Commonwealth’s constitution has provided that tax could only be assessed at a flat rate across all income levels–currently 5%. When Massachusetts voters went to the polls on Tuesday, November 8, they were asked for the sixth time in the last 107 years whether this constitutional provision should be amended to allow for graduated income tax rates. For the first time, voters–narrowly–said yes.

Interview with Chad Pytel, Founder & CEO Tell Us About Your Journey I got my first computer when I was about 10. My parents got it for me at a yard sale. I taught myself to program BASIC on that. It wasn’t actually very long after that, that I started to do work for people […]

The photo of Prince on the left above was taken by Lynn Goldsmith in 1981. Andy Warhol used this photo to create an unauthorized series of silkscreens – the “Prince Series” – which appears to the right of Goldsmith’s photo. Goldsmith is a well-known rock-and-roll celebrity photographer. When Warhol passed away in 1987, the Prince […]

Interview with Jeffrey Poole, CEO of Siren Marine Tell Us About Your Journey My journey was part of our CEO and founder’s journey, Dan Harper, who passed away a little over a year ago. And his vision was to connect every recreational boat in the oceans. So whether it was a sailboat, whether it was […]

Interview with Rochelle Nemrow, founder of FamilyID Tell Us About Your Journey My very first job out of college was with a magazine called High Technology Business Magazine that covered the intersection, it was the first magazine to cover the intersection of business and technology. It kind of ages me a little bit, but it […]

The Massachusetts Wage Act, M.G.L. c. 149, §148, is a particularly punitive statute for Massachusetts employers – entitling employees who are not timely paid their wages to three times the amount owed plus reimbursement of attorney’s fees accrued in pursuing their claim. With a recent decision of the Supreme Judicial Court – Reuter v. Methuen […]

Since our previous article from August 2021, employers have more frequently established and enforced mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies. Employers have the discretion to implement mandatory vaccination policies for their employees. Certain employees, however, must be vaccinated under Massachusetts law. Massachusetts requires mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for certain employees, such as those who work in: To reach […]

Tell Us About Your Journey My journey started back in 2010 in the United States Navy. I was a supply and logistics officer working on a minesweeper. Minesweepers were a 30 year-old platform, wooden chips, really broken down supply chains. And one of the things that I got to learn about was just how amazing […]