Dealing With Buy-Out Offers
Bill Myers
One of the great things about being an independent product
developer is knowing that the next phone call you get could be a
buy-out offer. It really does happen - people call and make an offer to buy the
ownership rights to your product, your web site, or even your
company. Through the years, I've received buy-out offers for every product
I have developed. And the offers continue even to this day (I
get more offers than I have products to sell). Of course, not every product will generate a buyout offer. But you can significantly increase the chance your products will
be buy-out targets by designing in those elements that make them
more 'buy-out friendly'. Do that, and the next time the phone rings, it could be someone
with a buy-out offer for the product you developed.
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