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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping.

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