Acquisitions Suck (here’s how to survive them)

Joe Procopio
8 min readApr 17, 2019

Listen up. If your company is being acquired, or if you’re planning for an acquisition as your exit, you need to know what’s coming. Because a lot of it isn’t pretty.

Acquisition has been a white-hot topic in startup circles lately, and I’m not surprised. A long dormant IPO market is finally beginning to thaw, as several high-profile unicorns race to go public. That in turn has…

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Joe Procopio

I'm a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer. Building TeachingStartup.com & GROWERS. Write at Inc.com and BuiltIn.com. More at joeprocopio.com