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You can't sell your beer cozy "company" like you can a successful startup.

You can't sell your startup like you can a successful startup.

(The odds of you having a successful startup are about that of you having a profitable beer cozy "company.")

No because the odds for selling a beer cozy for a million $ is 0, but it is > 0 for the startup.

Ok, so this may come as a surprise to you, but technology startups are not the only way that people make money. Weird, I know. But true.

These folks -- http://www.sportscanholder.com/ -- could sell their business for more than a million dollars.