Everybody’s talking about exits before they even try to run a business

Many entrepreneurs are talking about making an exit as soon as possible. Selling of their company as soon as possible to either become a serial entrepreneur, or to sit back and be able to relax in an indeterminate future. Why is the focus on selling the company instead of building the company?

37signals mentions the phenomenon in their latest podcast which is about something they’ve written about before, over-valued companies that have barely reached the stage to call for companies. Has the business world moved away from taking care of their business and operate it to see it as a one-night stand that they dragged home from the pub on a Friday night?

In a conference that I was attending last week, a famous venture capitalist who has been around for a while talked about this. Everyone constantly talks about exits, but before you are getting a divorce you have to be married.

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