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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Unique social networking product.

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