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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. eBay was ultimately unable to generate sufficient profits and synergies from the acquisition. Highly profitable. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5

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