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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Also not surprisingly, they didn’t make much money.

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