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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

The price offered was high for this type of business. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Questionable business model. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Unique social networking product.

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