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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Make sure when you go to sell the company you don’t run out of money and negotiating power. Yahoo is one of the best examples of failing to acquire other exiting companies and failing to maximize on their own exit,” Smith recalls. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002.

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