mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Whats your exit strategy? Before accepting an offer with a startup, ask what their exit strategy is, and make sure youre on board. What is the sales strategy? Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2014 Mashable, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. So are referrals. The only stipulation? People would only get paid if the candidates got hired.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Depending on the circumstances, they can shape the fundamentals of an exit, redistribute value among stakeholders, or even kill a deal altogether. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5 MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. Either as an exit strategy or as a profit strategy, buying and selling websites is an option for everyone in this room, especially if you want to maybe leave a marketplace and you’ve got a website that’s making money.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. With angels were now talking about venture fundingproper, so its time to introduce the concept of exit strategy.Younger would-be founders are often surprised that investors expectthem either to sell the company or go public. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 5, 2011

Six months after starting this blog back in 2005 I purchased what at the time was a cutting edge MP3 player, called an iRiver. Six months after starting this blog back in 2005 I purchased what at the time was a cutting edge MP3 player, called an iRiver. It was a 20GB HDD MP3 player, a principal competitor to the dominant iPod.

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