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Re:Flipping is Good. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're... by drusenko on Sunday October 04, 2009 @02:25PM (#860429)
when Dave says "sell out early" (and says "firesales don't count), he's talking about sales < $250M as "early", not $xxx,xxx or sub 5M deals.
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Re:Flipping is Good. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're... by ErrantX on Sunday October 04, 2009 @02:35PM (#860444)
I know but the same principle stands, it's just a different scale :)
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Re:Flipping is Good. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're... by jacquesm on Sunday October 04, 2009 @06:25PM (#860703)
Not sure about that. When I see the word 'sale' and 'exit' together in one sentence only to find out after a lot of digging that we're talking about a < $50K deal its painting a bad situation as a win-win.

It means that a startup has basically failed, that there may be some technology that can be recycled or that the founder has enough street creds that they can convert their failed startup into a signing bonus and call it an acquisition.

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