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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

They had a phenomenal obsession with customer service and offered free shipping and returns. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. They only had 13 employees!

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