Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) often appear as lucrative exit strategies for businesses aiming for growth, collaboration, or a successful closure. For women-led startups, M&A can indeed offer a significant payoff and validation of the value they've created. However, seeing M&A as the ultimate exit strategy might be overly reductive. Women entrepreneurs frequently aim to create long-lasting impact, value alignment, and maintain the ethos of the organizations they've built. Alternatives like passing the business to a trusted internal successor or transforming the business into a worker-owned cooperative might align more closely with these goals, offering an exit strategy that secures the founder's legacy and maintains the company's mission.
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