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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Unique social networking product.

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