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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 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. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Unique social networking product. Low profitability.

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