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When should you sell your company?

There’s a perception in Silicon Valley that if you sell your company for under $100 million, you’re a failure. That’s bunk, notes serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Mark Suster in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given at Stanford University. While an early sale is not always the right move, not every entrepreneur is going to change the world – and there’s no shame selling a small company at the right time. Suster tells the tale of how turning down what seemed like a tiny offer turned out to be a huge mistake.

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