Exit Strategies


Recent Exit Strategies Articles

Prepare Your Exit Strategy Now – Just in Case

Here are four things you can do now to increase the value of your business-and give you a smoother transition out when the time is right.  Read more

Facebook vs. Twitter: Old-School Business Models Still Rule

A new Gawker report shows Twitter lagging far behind Facebook in revenue. If the numbers are accurate, they show big trouble.  Read more

5 Cues You're Pursuing A Bad Business Idea 

How to determine you're on a dead-end business path. Tips from Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, and Marc Barros, CEO of Contour hands...  Watch video

Why My Exit Strategy Failed

In a business sense, I did everything right when I sold my company. But I forgot to ask myself one essential question.  Read more

Facebook Unveils New Marketing Tactics For Brands

In a charm offensive to woo advertisers before its IPO, Facebook pitched brands new features to guarantee they reach fans' timelines and profile pages.  Read more

How Ready Are You for Retirement?

A recent survey found more than half of small business owners are ill-prepared for retirement. Learn what the most common misconceptions are.  Read more

Yelp Prices its IPO: 12 Things You Need to Know

Yelp, the user-generated review site based in San Francisco, priced shares of its IPO between $12 and $14, and seeks to raise nearly $100 million in its upco...  Read more

Hack Days: Not Just for Facebookers

As part of Facebook's IPO filing, founder Mark Zuckerberg praised the concept of the "hackathon." Could something similar benefit your company, even if you'r...  Read more

21 Gems of Facebook's S-1 That Will Boggle Your Mind

Private jets? $200 million paintings? Zuckerberg's salary? Here are few things the financial analysts won't be talking about this morning.  Read more

Inside Facebook's S-1: What Investors Are Saying

We dug into the IPO filing. Is Facebook really worth $100 billion? What does it mean for capital markets? Is the social network just managing expectations?  Read more

Looking To Raise Capital? 

Pravina Raghavan, New York District Director of the Small Business Administration, recommends you take advantage of free resources.  Watch video

Stonyfield Founder: I'm Not Retiring!

Gary Hirshberg talks to his wife, Inc. columnist Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, about his recent decision to step down as CEO of Stonyfield Yogurt.  Read more

Groupon CEO: We Made a 'Bush-League Mistake'

Andrew Mason dishes on both the company's big financial goof & its successful email strategy.  Read more

Entrepreneurs that Got Filthy Rich in 2011

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only entrepreneur good at making bank. Here’s a look at the 9 entrepreneurs and (and one investor) that got filthy, stupid, abs...  View slideshow

3 Reasons Not to File an IPO

An IPO is no panacea: In some cases going public may even stifle the growth of your company. Find out why.  Read more

No. 1 Reason Acquisitions Fail

Too often company executives driven by expanding their empire or blinded by a "quick fix" for entering a new market end up in an overpriced deal.  Read more

The Crazy, Mixed-up IPO Market

More companies have filed for an initial public offering, but have not yet gone public this year than in more than a decade.  Read more

Jive Software Moves Ahead With IPO

The social networking software company--a perennial on the Inc. 5000--is seeking to raise as much as $117 million.  Read more

How You'll Know It's Time to Cash Out

What's the exact sale price for your business that will allow you to live worry-free off the proceeds for the rest of your life? Here's the answer.  Read more

What's Your Exit Strategy? 

Four-time entrepreneur Joe Apprendi talks about exiting three companies and how his latest--Collective, a New York online advertising firm--could be his home...  Watch video

When to Throw in the Towel 

How do you know when it's time to pack up your venture and start over? Plus, signs it's time to quit from small-business consultant Barry Moltz, author of Watch video

The Anomolous IPO: Angie's List

The first Inc. 500 company to go public since August exceeded its IPO expectations, despite that it doesn't look much like other companies going public this ...  Read more

Mark Zuckerberg's Original Plans for Facebook

In a 2005 interview, the then 21-year-old founder is focused only on created a cool college directory.  Read more

What You Can Learn From Groupon's IPO Missteps

It's been a rocky road to going public for Groupon, which has faced scrutiny from investors, analysts, and the SEC leading up to its October 24 IPO road show.  Read more

The Don't-Do Lists

Don't underestimate the importance of what not to do in certain situations. Here, we compiled a list of 14 scenarios and asked business leaders and experts f...  Read more