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Starting a Business? You Should Already Be Thinking About Your Exit Strategy. Here's Why.Planning for a profitable sale should start even before you open your company.

ByJessica Fialkovich

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Right from the start, even before you've hung up your open sign, you should be looking ahead to the day you sell your company (for a nice big profit, of course). It's a fact you must face because you will have to exit someday. Everyone does. Will you control that exit or let fate control it?

The truth is that most owners do not sell according to a strategic plan. I certainly didn't.

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