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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. They only had 13 employees! Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping.

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