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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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Paterson advises that if the exit strategy is acquired by a competitor, certain aspects of the company, like corporate finances and internal controls, are more important than if the goal was to take the company public. And sadly, in 2008 Yahoo turned down an offer to be acquired by Microsoft for $44.6

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How Big Corporations Are Cutting Their Energy Usage

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Businesses need all kinds of resources in order to thrive and one of their best ones are the interns that they recruit. In 2008, they created a program that is called the Climate Corps. Oh, and that interns can be more than people who get coffee and do filing. This is where the EDF comes in. They literally can be world changers.

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