Building a Business
IPO vs. Getting Acquired: What You Can Learn From Snap and Instagram’s Divergent Exit Strategies
It's important to know the costs and benefits of each approach.
By Rashmi Menon
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Thought Leaders
6 Things You Must Know When Selling Your Business to a Third Party
Don't second guess your decisions when selling your business. Instead, follow this expert's advice for doing it right.
Thought Leaders
The First 3 Steps You Need to Take When Selling Your Business
Find out what you have to do to prepare your business for sale.
Thought Leaders
3 Signs It’s a Smart Time to Sell Your Online Business
Running a company takes one set of skills. Fully capitalizing on beckoning opportunities requires another -- and an awareness of your market.
Building a Business
The Entrepreneurial Exit Strategy — Prepare Yourself
Four tips to getting your house in order for your ideal buyer
Thought Leaders
How to Make Sure Your Business Keeps Running When You’re Ready to Walk Away
Realize you can't hold the reins forever.
Building a Business
5 Ways to Lead Your Company to a Successful Exit
It may seem paradoxical, but the key to leading a company to a successful exit is not to focus on the exit at all.
Building a Business
Don’t Let a Cyber Attack Stand Between Your Company and a Successful Exit
Here are three best practices for enhancing security measures so that cyber attacks don't impede a desirable merger or acquisition.
By Greg Arnette
Business Accounting
Planning to Sell Your Company in a Few Years? You Have Work to Do Now.
Seven steps to getting the price that you want.
Building a Business
An M&A Wave Is Coming: 4 Ways to Determine Whether You Should Sell
This is a great time to sell but merger mania usually ends in a reversal of the tide painful for tech businesses that aren't profitable or growing.
Building a Business
5 Steps to Positioning Your Tech-Enabled Company Now for a Successful Strategic Exit in 2 to 5 Years
Keeping a few key considerations in mind can help you better position your business for acquisition by a strategic or private equity buyer.
By Art Mertes
Business News
This Startup Got Bought in Reportedly Biggest Ecommerce Deal Ever
The deal supposedly beat out Walmart's purchase of Jet.com
Building a Business
6 Tips From Tinder Execs on Finding Enough Success to Be Acquired
While acquisition should never be a founding goal, it sometimes becomes an option for strategic startups.
Business Accounting
The Art of Selecting an Investment Banker
The numbers are important, but your relationship with whom you are crunching the numbers with is even more important.
By Katie May
Building a Business
What to Do When You’re Why Your Company’s Growth Stalled
Just as you'd do after a bad relationship, when your company's growth reaches a plateau, take a look in the mirror and say, "Maybe it's me."
By Steve Little
Building a Business
5 Mistakes to Avoid During Exit Planning
For instance, have you ascertained the exact reason you're selling? Money may be the least of it.
By Thomas Smale
Thought Leaders
Cashing Out: 3 Tips for Valuing and Preparing Your Business for Sale
The journey from founder to investor is a time where all of your hard work and dedication can bear fruit.
Building a Business
4 Tips for a Happy Exit From the Company You Founded and Love
Selling your startup is something to celebrate. Complaining dishonors the awesomeness of the journey.
By Simon Cohen
Thought Leaders
3 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Setting Up Their Exit
Business owners commonly wait far too long to get the professional help needed to make the best of what they have built.
By Ken Dunn
Building a Business
5 Strategies to Help You Sell Your SaaS Business
Most entrepreneurs dream of one day being able to exit their businesses, but SaaS businesses are a special challenge.
By Thomas Smale
Building a Business
5 Important Steps to Exit Planning
If you want to sell your online business, you're going to require a strategy.
By Thomas Smale
Building a Business
4 Ways to Develop a Better Exit Strategy
Build a great business first. The rest will follow.
Thought Leaders
Follow These 8 Steps for Your Next Job After a Startup
The challenge for these entrepreneurs is to know when to exit, and how to do it smoothly.
Thought Leaders
My Post-Acquisition Report Card
Planning your exit through a merger or acquisition takes a lot of study and preparation. Do your homework.
Building a Business
What About Offboarding?
Are you paying attention to exiting employees and the important information they can provide?
Building a Business
5 Lessons Learned From Serial 7-Figure Sellers
How do these entrepreneurs manage to repeatedly sell their companies for $1 million or more? Read on.
By Mark Daoust
Building a Business
What Slow Exits Mean to Startup Investors
Since the end of the Internet 1.0 boom in 2001, the time to exit for the average venture-capital-backed company has more than doubled.
By Scott Shane