Serious entrepreneurs don’t build a company with an aim to sell it. They build it to solve a problem. But a startup may struggle or run out of cash. Or maybe the founders will get tired, have a fallout, or get an extremely attractive buyout offer on the table. This exit offer can come from a customer, partner, rival, vendor, or even another big company.
In those scenarios, exiting becomes the end goal for several entrepreneurs. But how does one navigate that curvy road? The panel on “Exits and M&As” at the Tech in Asia Bangalore 2016 conference saw Miten Sampat, head of corporate development at Times Internet, Sanat Rao, venture partner at IDG Ventures, and Alok Goel, managing director at SAIF Partners, debate on the right approach to exiting. The panel was moderated by Abhishek Gupta, head of TLabs.
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