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When to sell your company? Look for these signals | TechCrunch

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In Silicon Valley , startups are 16 times more likely to get acquired than IPOs, founders say.

Naveen Rao and Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan each built and sold two companies.

Battery Ventures' Dharmesh Thakker analyzes the company using a three -point framework to determine when it's time to soldier on.

In both cases, the company can keep trying, but it’ll burn a lot of cash in the process.

“In those cases, you should be much more open-minded, and the sooner you do it, the better off you are,” Thakker said.

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