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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Questionable business model. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. They only had 13 employees! The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

by Tristan on January 20, 2011. Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway. . • ABOUT. Jan 20 -->.