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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. 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. Their offer was rebuffed and the company went public five years later.

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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 p2Pkk0 cc: @jack “One by one, all the things founders dislike about raising money are going to get eliminated.” ” -Paul Graham bit.ly/prAYlf