> A business that makes money can be sold. Period.
This should be further constrained to "a business that makes money in excess of market-rate salaries for all personal and merger overhead can be sold".
Solid programmers in the Bay Area pull over $250k annually in total comp (salary, bonus, and equity); however, only a few companies can or are willing to pay that.
You can easily find yourself getting better acqi-hire offers (HR hires) from Google,Facebook, et al. than offers to actually buy your company by other players. And since you need to "stick around after the company is acquired", it is not uncommon for the acqui-hire to be the best exit for for companies pulling < $1M/year rev (esp. true with VC backed companies where liquidation preferences are present).
This should be further constrained to "a business that makes money in excess of market-rate salaries for all personal and merger overhead can be sold".
Solid programmers in the Bay Area pull over $250k annually in total comp (salary, bonus, and equity); however, only a few companies can or are willing to pay that.
You can easily find yourself getting better acqi-hire offers (HR hires) from Google,Facebook, et al. than offers to actually buy your company by other players. And since you need to "stick around after the company is acquired", it is not uncommon for the acqui-hire to be the best exit for for companies pulling < $1M/year rev (esp. true with VC backed companies where liquidation preferences are present).