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When to shut down your company

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    Very good article. One of the big mistakes of my career was selling on a very nice bootstrapped startup. Your four questions might have made me think twice. My reason for selling was greener pastures, which of course turned out to be not so green. So a cautionary tale there....

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      @steve9 can you share more? What was your MRR when you sold and why did you sell, and what were the greener pastures you had hoped for (which ended up being not so green)?

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      I'd also like to hear more about this — looking back, do you think the red flags could have been spotted? Or was your situation one that only became clear after the fact?

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    I loved the part where you list other ways of saying shutting down without saying it

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    When all your income comes from the sales team. Live by sales, die by sales.

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    When the profitability goes totally down, with less or no scope in future.

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    Great article. Definitely worth a read for all founders and entrepreneurs

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    Great article! Thanks for sharing.

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    Hey,

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    As single founder, I grew my startup from ZERO to $175K/Year and then I found my domain name was stolen. A series of unwanted events forced to shut down the company.

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    Sometimes it's better to keep going. Figma didn't make money and was in shambles for the first 5 years but had a 20 billion exit in year 10.

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    Nice article on shutting down of business

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    Unfortunately, while they are quantitative, there’s no deterministic way to know if you’ve actually tried everything in the right way. At some point, you have to make a call based on accumulated evidence.

    I guess it has to do with consecutive failures as well. If you've made 10 experiments and they've all failed and no experiment is showing promise, then maybe you should reconsider what you're doing.

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    Growth is key. But as you say, it's hard to determine whether you've done everything possible to grow. As founders, we can easily convince ourselves to keep trying rather than admit defeat. Making the call based on accumulated evidence really is the best approach.

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    Great article. You make a good point that there are many businesses just plodding along doing the bare minimum to keep from going under, but it's this stagnant way of operating a business that is a good indicator it's time to shut down.

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      This is a too narrow approach. Some projects/products simply need more time or are more on a step-function growth path.

      True, talk to others, exchange, get help etc, but please don't wait for a year :)

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