Exit: 139 Fundraising Guides & Case Studies (2026)

Name: The Art of Startup Fundraising
ISBN: 978-1119191834

M&A, IPO, secondaries — planning the eventual exit.

Exit guides (139)

The Ultimate Guide to Startup Capital Sources: From Bootstrapping to IPO
What is an IPO for Startups? A Founder's Guide to Going Public
How to Navigate a Recapitalization: The Founder's Guide to Survival and Alignment
How to Run a Founder-Friendly Secondary Stock Sale
The Founder's Guide to Recapitalization: How to Restructure Your Cap Table
Recapitalization: A Founder's Guide to a Partial Exit
A Founder's Guide to Selling Your Startup
A Founder's Guide to Selling Your Startup: Questions, Frameworks, and Red Flags
How to Find and Engage Potential Acquirers for Your Startup
How to Build a Startup Exit Strategy: A Founder's Guide
How to Choose Your Startup Exit Strategy: A Founder's Guide
How to Find a Buyer for Your Startup: The Founder's Playbook
The Founder's Guide to SPACs: A Trap for the Unwary?
How to Sell Your Startup: A Tactical Guide for Founders
Are You Ready to Sell Your Startup? A Tactical Guide
How to Sell Your Business: The Founder's Guide to Maximizing Valuation
How to Handle Employee Transitions When Selling Your Business
How to Protect Your Business When Selling It
When Not to Sell Your Startup: A Tactical Guide
How Long Does It Really Take to Sell Your Startup?
How to Find and Attract Buyers for Your Business
Selling Your Startup: 10 Costly Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
The 6 Strategic Narratives That Get Startups Acquired
Who Will Buy Your Startup? A Founder's Guide to Strategic Acquirers
How to Get Your Startup Acquired: The Founder's Guide
What to Expect When You're Getting Acquired: A Founder's Guide
Asset Purchase Agreement: A Founder's Guide to Buying and Selling Company Assets
The Founder's Roadmap to Buying a Business
The Founder's Guide to Startup Acquirers
A Founder's Guide to Selling Your Startup
Selling Your Startup to a Family Office: A Founder's Guide
The Founder's Guide to Buy-and-Build and Roll-Up Strategies
The Startup Divestiture: How to Sell Non-Core Assets to Fund Growth
The Founder's Guide to Strategic Partnerships
The Management Buyout (MBO) Playbook: How to Buy the Company You Work For
How to Run a Business Auction to Maximize Your Exit
Management Buyouts: A Founder's Guide to Buying or Selling a Company to its Leadership
The Founder's Guide to Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs)
The Founder's Guide to Selling Your VC-Backed Startup
Should You Sell Your Business? A Founder's Framework for When to Exit
The Real Costs of Selling Your Business: A Founder's Guide
Exit Strategy: Why Founders Should (or Shouldn't) Plan for an Exit Early
When to Sell Your Startup: A Founder's Guide to Exit Decisions
Subscription Pivot Scaling Your Business Effortlessly
Startup Advice Stay Humble & Curious for Success
8 Figure Exit Scaling a Business to Enterprise Level
David Dorfman On Building And Selling A Company, Now Helping Americans Recover Lost Unclaimed Money
20 Years Old. $100M Exit.
Acquisition Secrets Buy Smart, Avoid M&A Disasters
Business 101 Forget Hype, Focus on Value & Profit
Fred Voccola On Building A $1.7B Company And Leveraging AI To Transform The $6T Trades Industry
A Founder's Playbook For Surviving Recessions And Building To A $1.7B Exit
M&A vs Funding Smart Timing for Your Startup
Fundraising Secrets Turning 'No' into Acquisition Success
Startup Hypergrowth Leads to Thomson Reuters Acquisition!
Dan Wertman On Building An AI-Powered Platform That Processed $1T In Transaction Volume
The Noetica Playbook: How a Lawyer Turned Domain Expertise Into a Major AI Exit
Participating vs. Non-Participating Preferred Stock: A Founder's Guide to Exit Math
Building a Unicorn Startup for M&A or IPO Success!
Philipp Heltewig On Raising $169M To Build The Global Leader In Conversational AI & Selling For $1B+
Double Digit EBITA & Growth Our IPO Success Story
Bootstrapped to $1M ARR Our Revenue Financing Strategy
Startup Exit Secrets Building a Business for 13 Years
Joshua Silver On Selling A Company For $450M And Now Building A PaaS Platform For Software Companies
Taking a Startup Public_ The Glimpse IPO Journey
Industry Jumps Learn from Diverse Experience for Success
Lyron Bentovim On Cofounding A $100M AUM Hedge Fund & Raising $50M For An Immersive Tech Platform
Rylan Hamilton On Selling A Company To Shopify For $450M & Raising $60M To Build Autonomous Ships
From Navy Officer To A $450M Exit: Rylan Hamilton's Playbook For Building Hard-Tech Companies
Smart Lock Secret How I Sold My Company for Millions!
Henric Suuronen On Building And Selling A Gaming Company For $100M And Backing Startups Via $450M VC
Mark Rampolla On Selling A Company To Coca-Cola for $200 Million, And Co-Founding A $600-Million PE
Alex Hawkinson: Selling A Company To Samsung For $200M And Raising $78M To Automate Infrastructure
Thriving on NASDAQ Our Path to Business Success
Eric Remer: Building A $2B Valuation Company To Support SMBs With AI-Driven Business Solutions
Democratizing AI Future
Never Believed In 9 5
Tarun Raisoni: Building And Exiting $270+ Million Companies And Providing AI-Driven Tech Solutions
Strategic Sale vs. Venture Capital: A Founder's Guide to Choosing the Right Exit
FanDuel Sold for $4.2B. Founders Got $0 #business #startup #venturecapital #entrepreneur #vc
Sold His Business For $40M+. Started With This - Adam Schwartz (Parable) #entrepreneur #business #vc
Adam Schwartz: Selling A Company For $40+ Million And Now Building An AI Tool
Suneera Madhani: Selling A $1-Billion Payments Company And Now Building A Credit Assessment Platform
Vadim Rogovskiy: Building & Exiting Companies And Now Creating An AI Executive Assistant
Vikram Shekhawat: Selling A Company To Blackboard And Now Building An AI Platform
Rami Tamir: Sold Two Companies to Cisco and Red Hat, and a Third to Oracle in a $500M Deal
Turning $2K Into $1M+ #money #business #startup #investing #entrepreneur
Molham Aref: Selling Two $100+ Million Companies And Now Raising $122 Million
The $1.3 Trillion Mistake #money #entrepreneur #startup #investing #business #microsoft #billgates
David Young: Selling A Company For $170 Million To Samsung
Most Profitable Tech Companies You’ve Never Heard Of #entrepreneur #startup #tech ##business
From a $250M IPO at 26 to Building a Market from Zero
Why Your Investor's Exit Strategy Is Your Problem Too
Lessons From a $1.6B Exit: Brian O'Kelley on the Transition From CTO to CEO
How to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege When You Sell Your Company
Should You Sell Your Startup in an Election Year?
Goutham Rao's Playbook: From Three Exits To A New GenAI Venture
How to Get Acquired by a Family Office
From a $109M Exit to Bootstrapping: Pablo Fernandez Alvarez on Profitable Growth and Founder Control
Lessons From A Founder Who Sold For $100M, Raised $600M, And Is Now Bootstrapping
Build and Exit: Lessons From a Founder Behind Two Middle Eastern Unicorns
Cybersecurity Concerns For Buyers And Sellers In M&A Transactions
From a $350M Exit to a New Frontier in Feeding: The Founder's Playbook
The Company He Co-founded Was Sold For $1.5 Billion And Now He Is Starting A New Adventure Combining Exercising With Gaming
A Founder's Guide to Cross-Border Acqui-Hire Integration
How Mark Otero Turned a Craigslist Team Into a $35M Exit to EA
From a Cinder-Block House to a $35M Exit: The Mark Otero Founder Playbook
Buy vs. Build: How Startups Get Acquired for Innovation
From IPO To Climate Tech: Lessons From A Four-Decade Entrepreneur
Regulatory Compliance In M&A: How To Ensure A Smooth Approval Process
The Bizrate Playbook: How A Lean Startup Survived The Dot-Com Crash And Sold For $525 Million
Henri Asseily: Lessons From a $525M Exit and Why He Left VC
From a $400M Exit to a New B2B Playbook: Lessons from Demandbase Founder Christopher Golec
From a $400M Exit to a New B2B Playbook: Lessons from Demandbase Founder Christopher Golec
Lessons from an $800M Founder: Muddu Sudhakar on How to Go All-In, Navigate Crises, and Engineer Your Exit
The $800M Playbook: Lessons From Serial Founder Muddu Sudhakar
How To Win As A Second-Time Founder: Lessons From A $375M Exit
How To Crush Your Competitors
From Google Acqui-Hire To $119M: A Founder's Playbook For B2B Infrastructure
4 Hard-Won Lessons from a Second-Time Founder Who Sold to Google
From IPO at 29 to $100M in First-Year Sales: Lessons From Raymond Chang
From $80M Exit To $100M Raise: A Founder's Playbook For Psychedelic Pharma
From an $80M Exit to a $100M Raise: A Founder's Guide to High-Stakes Ventures
The 5P Framework: How A Serial Founder Sold Multiple Sustainable Brands
Marci Zaroff on Building a Million-Dollar Sustainable Brand
From A $500M Exit To Embedded Finance: The Founder's Playbook
The Founder's Playbook: From Bootstrapping To A $500M Exit
From a $150M Exit to a $50M Raise: Gina Bianchi’s Playbook for Your Second Act
Hossein Azari On Selling His First Company For $100 Million And Now Building Your Gateway To Crypto
Cyriac Roeding On Selling His Company For $250M And Raising $60M To Detect Cancer Earlier
Chris Gladwin On Selling His Business To IBM For $1.3B And Raising $65 Million To Analyze Data Sets
Jason Flick On How He Sold His Startup To AT&T For Over $100 Million
Ross Buhrdorf On Selling His Startup For $3.9B And Raising $70M To Help You Start A Business
Lazada's $4B Exit: Maximilian Bittner's Playbook For Hyper-Growth
From a $4B Exit to a $250M Scale-Up: Lessons on Building to Last
Alan Hahn: Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Founder And 6-Time Entrepreneur
FreshBooks: From Bootstrapped To $100M By Rethinking VC
René Rechtman's Playbook: From A $100M AOL Exit To A $145M Series A
The Mist Playbook: How Two Ex-Cisco Execs Built and Sold Their Startup for $405 Million

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