You Sold Your Company… Now What? How to Prepare for Life After Exit

Sunday marked four years since I sold iContact, a company I built based on a web app I whipped up in a few weeks time programming on my futon my sophomore year of college at UNC. It was a decade long ride with some monumental ups and downs but the story ended just like any startup founder could dream it up—with a bunch of hoopla, a big press release and a wire transfer that still doesn’t seem real this many years later. All that boring business stuff aside, I’ve learned since then, that when you sell a company in...

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