Poll: How little would you sell your startup for right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=170690

by epi0Bauqu • 18 years ago

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gm• 18 years ago

Hopefully you are not making a decision based on the results of this poll... It cannot possibly have any value other than entertainment value.

epi0Bauqu3• 18 years ago

Neither really. Like I said in the poll text, I'm just curious to know how people on this forum are personally valuing their startups at the moment. Do we have a bunch of people who would sell for $100K or a bunch of $10M+ people? I just thought it might say something interesting about the community.

allang• 18 years ago

This may be just for fun, but it's rather ominous and appropriate for the times. Daydreaming about VC and acquisition rather than profits and running actual businesses.

epi0Bauqu3• 18 years ago

I was waiting for a script to finish running, and thought it might give interesting results.

ph0rque• 18 years ago

Question along the same line: has anyone open-sourced their app before selling their startup because they didn't trust the acquirer?

jamiequint• 18 years ago

I imagine this theorizing all goes out the window when there is an actual live offer on the table.

LPTS2• 18 years ago

I don't want to sell. I want my company to get big so we can do the exciting work I see a company like ours doing down the road a few years. It isn't about the money, I don't want to lose my chance to influence the future by creating it.

(We are not yet funded and have no obligations to investors)

epi0Bauqu3• 18 years ago

OK, I added a no amount choice. But really? You wouldn't sell for any amount?

LPTS2• 18 years ago

I don't have investors yet. Don't care about the money.

If I get rich, I want to do other creative stuff with the money. 15 million is an institute for music composers, with access to staff, instruments, and state of the art music labs. 50 million is a non profit to design next generation nursing homes and non profit business models that improve care by spending more on staff and being endowed. 100 million is a center for the study of consciousness, to patronize great thinkers, and provide the resources for any kinds of interdisciplinary collaborations the smart folks need. 250 million is a center for the study of space and time, where philosophers and physics could work together to address fundamental questions with no academic requirements and many resources.

I'm not giving up my chance to build up a google size company and do all that other stuff for twenty million.

nadimnadim• 18 years ago

I'd sell Brandfame for less than $50k ... anyone interested? lol

Poll: How little would you sell your startup for right now?

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