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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. This startup offered free peer to peer on-line phone service. This was a great service, but it generated very little income. Unique social networking product. Unprofitable.

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