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Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy

Up and Running

An exit strategy is a method by which entrepreneurs and investors, especially those that have invested large sums of money in startup companies, transfer ownership of their business to a third party, or by which they recoup money invested in the business. See Also What Startups Need to Know About Exit Strategies.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. The problem was that he was still working out the lock-up period in his big company.