If your startup makes $500K a year and someone offers you $3M, you're basically being offered six years of profits today. That's a pretty interesting decision. You could keep running the business and hope those profits continue for the next six years. Or you could take $3M today... Invest it. Start another company. Take some time off. And let someone else take the risk of what happens to the business from here. Maybe holding gets you a much bigger outcome. Maybe it doesn't.. But…