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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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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. Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock.

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