exit strategies
Ways to leave
Exit strategies are plans for withdrawing from a situation—typically a business venture, investment, or military engagement.
An investor's exit strategy might involve selling shares when a company goes public; a founder's might be acquisition by a larger firm.
The term implies forethought: What's your exit strategy if the startup fails?
Military exit strategies address how to end involvement in a conflict.
More casually, an exit strategy can be any plan for leaving an awkward situation: I need an exit strategy for this dinner party.
- divestmentDisposal of assets
- exitsDeparture points
- closureSense of emotional resolution
- bankruptcy filingFormal insolvency proceeding
- extricationAct of freeing
pull the plug · cut and run · retreat · buyout · private equity · merger talks · disengagement · succession planning · escape routes · liquidation · going concern · golden parachute · capital preservation · soft landing · contingency planning · exfiltration · ceasefire agreements · separation
- private equityleveraged buyout, leveraged buyouts, LBO, buyouts, general partner
- de-escalationde-escalation, calming, defusing, pacification, placation
- startup fundingseed round, venture capital, angel investment, angel investors, seed funding
exit strategiesdoubling down
Strengthening a risky commitment
entrenchment · perseverance · holding patterns · ride or die · all in
exit strategiesgoing all in
betting the farm · blind faith · point of no return · throwing caution to the wind
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