Selling the firm
Full liquidity, but you lose control, usually sign an earn-out, and the thing you built becomes someone else's.
LIQUIDITY WITHOUT A SALE
Take money off the table without taking the firm off the table
Partners reach a point where the value is real but locked up, and the only routes out are a sale, a merger, or a buy-in. A licence puts cash in without any of them. The firm carries on exactly as it is.
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Six questions, roughly two minutes.
No sale, no merger, no buy-inOwnership and control unchanged$100K to $2M paid to the firm
WHAT PARTNERS ASK
The questions that come up in the partners' meeting
Does this affect a future sale of the firm?
It does not sell the business or the underlying data, and it does not set a price on the firm. The licence is defined and bounded.
Do all partners need to agree?
That is your governance to determine. What we can say is that no equity is issued and no debt is created, which is usually what the question turns on.
Will anyone know we did this?
Nothing is listed anywhere and there is no process. We do not disclose which labs take which data.
How is the money treated?
It is payment for a licence, not equity and not debt. How you distribute it internally is entirely your decision.
WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH
Partners who have actually sold what they built
“Built Simplicity Solar to $35M in three years and sold it. He knows what an exit costs beyond the headline number.”
“Eight acquisitions closed across the group, $100M+ in revenue across businesses built with partners, $21M raised.”
THE ALTERNATIVES, HONESTLY
What the usual routes actually cost
Every conventional way of getting value out of a firm takes something structural with it. This is the comparison worth making.
A merger
Scale and some liquidity, at the cost of governance, culture, and independence that is difficult to recover.
A partner buy-in
Keeps it internal, but dilutes existing partners and is capped by what incoming partners can actually fund.
A licence
Cash in, nothing given up structurally. Bounded, defined, and it does not touch ownership or control.
SPEAK WITH A MANAGING PARTNER
Liquidity that leaves the firm exactly as it is
Six questions and a short conversation will tell you whether there is a deal here. Nothing you tell us leaves Polyshares.
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