How to flip your start-up
Posted: November 28, 2012 Filed under: Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, WA Today | Tags: Chomp, flip, sell, Stamped, start-up, start-up success, startup, Yammer Leave a commentEven if your start-up is just scraping along, you can always dream about flipping it for a fortune. It happens.
In February, Apple bought the Australian discovery start-up Chomp for $US50 million. In June, Microsoft bought the social enterprise start-up Yammer for a dazzling $US1.2 billion. And on October 25, Yahoo snapped up the New York City-based smartphone app maker Stamped for a secret sum.
Here, two start-up experts tell how to raise your chances of getting bought out and joining the ranks of Chomp, Yammer and Stamped.
Read more at the Sydney Morning Herald.