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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. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. 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. Unprofitable.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: August 11th – 21st

Scott Edward Walker

.” - @mcuban on.wsj.com/q1v3Uk When to Make the First Offer in Negotiations – interesting post via Professor Galinsky (from 2004) bit.ly/p2Pkk0 prAYlf Quora-Related Quora: What deal structure should be in place for a friend/family investment of < 20k in your startup? ” -Paul Graham bit.ly/prAYlf