Sunday, May 18, 2014

What to Consider Before Selling Your Startup to Big Companies

Posted By: George Deeb - 5/18/2014

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I was lucky enough to be involved with two startups that were both sold to $1BN revenue businesses: iExplore was sold to TUI Travel, and MediaRecall was sold to Deluxe. In both cases, the investors were excited to get an exit and return on their investment, and the founders were excited about joining up with a big company to help accelerate growth.

But, despite the best of intentions of parties on both sides of the transaction, integrating a startup into a big company can present numerous challenges which we will discuss below.

Read the rest of this post in The Next Web, which I guest authored this week.

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