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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

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. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. They only had 13 employees! . - Modest profitability. -

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