If your startup makes $1M a year in profit and someone offers you $7M to buy it, I'd seriously consider selling. That's 7 years of today's profits wired into your bank account. Seven years where you don't have to worry about losing customers. New competitor entering your market. AI completely changing your industry. Or just getting tired of running the same business every day. You could take that $7M or start another company. Take a few years off and figure out what you want to do…