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Punk Rock and The Sale of Your e-Business

'Should I stay or should I go?'<br/>That was the question that those classic '80s punk rockers The Clash asked in a song by the same title about a romance gone awry. That's just a song, though.<br/>But, interestingly enough, that hard-driving ditty is applicable to the world of e-business: The entrepreneur contemplating the future of his or her business ' a love built of the same good times and bad, and with the same blood, sweat and tears as a real-life romance ' confronts the same dilemma when it's time to make that decision: Should he stay or should he go? How could a person not expect such perseveration? When an entrepreneur reads about the rapid rise of YouTube from startup to $1.65 billion buyout, he or she can easily forget about the many new firms that fail, and instead imagine being the personification of ' or fantasize about ' having a company that becomes the next tech-economy icon.

18 minute read December 28, 2006 at 09:26 AM
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Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
Punk Rock and The Sale of Your e-Business

'Should I stay or should I go?'

That was the question that those classic '80s punk rockers The Clash asked in a song by the same title about a romance gone awry.

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