And they willingly give each other advice about hosting providers, deal terms, and much more.
For two years the four owners battled with themselves and Arnault over prices and deal terms.
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Entrepreneurs that did have the upper hand in negotiating favorable deal terms now find that the VCs are dicating the terms.
While those deal terms are similar to Apple's pact with publishers, these people say, magazine executives believe that the competition could eventually lead to more favorable terms.
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The deal still needs shareholder approval and Southeastern, which has an 8.5 percent stake, last week urged shareholders to reject the current deal terms, saying it undervalues Dell.
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Valuations are lower and entrepreneurs more realistic about deal terms.
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Biotech firms surveyed focused on four key factors: commitment from senior management, favorable deal terms, market depth in a particular therapeutic area and a strong alignment with a partner's core strategy.
The deal terms could stand as they are now.
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Deal terms were not disclosed.
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Having negotiated these deals from the team side for 10 years, I know the code of how this works: teams tell the agent that the deal terms remain confidential yet fully expect the agent to call his media contact of choice to spin it most positively.
RealPlayer is the "advertiser, " if we were to re-contextualize this deal in terms of content publishing.
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Mr de Jong says that, although he is a fan of plain language, he had to deal with terms bureaucrats normally use.
Because components differ a great deal in terms of size, raw material bases and manufacturing methods, it's hard to see them as one monolithic industry.
Global Insight analyst Ronel Oberholzer, who is based in South Africa, thinks South Africa's new president Zuma will keep an open mind about the consequences of the deal in terms of its impact on jobs--made easier by the fact that Anglo already announced plans to cut 10, 000 jobs at its Anglo Platinum unit in February.
In a secret ballot on Monday, 56 of 79 drivers rejected a new deal, the terms of which have not been made public.
In a secret ballot on Monday, 56 of 79 voters rejected the new deal, the terms of which have not been made public.
The deal, whose terms will be announced at a news conference later this morning, brings to a close a ten-month investigation by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into tainted research at Merrill.
Microsoft's refusal to discuss a deal on these terms prompted Motorola to file lawsuits in the US and Europe seeking to block several Microsoft products from sale on the basis that its rights had been infringed.
It is unclear exactly which were the deal-breaking terms that led Apple to hastily fast track its own Maps app (with embarrassing results) but the new, non-default version has everything Apple could have wanted on board.
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Microsoft's refusal to discuss a deal on these terms prompted Motorola to file lawsuits in the US and Europe last year, seeking to block several Microsoft products from sale on the basis that its rights had been infringed.
It is crucial to recognize that the consumers who bought snow pants because of the rebate deal have been harmed, if only a little bit, by the terms of the deal.
Sources are reporting that the broad terms of the deal have been agreed to, and its only a few fine details and some financial terms that need to be finalized.
Many daily-deal shoppers will likely buy daily deals even if the offer is a little less sweet, and the terms of the deal a little more well-defined and constrained.
The pricing of the Quest deal is cheaper in terms of raw cost.
One of the more remarkable aspects of this deal is the generous terms Mr Gifford has extracted from Mr Lewis.
The move puts pressure on the Bloomberg administration to strike a deal on its own terms before the state takes control.
The deal, for undisclosed terms, includes 2 new Stephanie Plum titles.
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