Name Your Price

One of you built this thing from nothing and the other just slid a lowball offer across the table with an open briefcase behind it. What the buyer doesn't say out loud: they need it more than they're letting on. What the seller is hiding: a debt that comes due Friday, so the walk-away everyone respects isn't really on the menu. Anchor high, find the real deadline, split the difference or refuse to — the offer expires the second someone stands up.