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The Double Play

to the same private equity firm twice may sound a little crazy, but that’s exactly what Bill Clendenen did. And if that doesn’t seem implausible enough, consider that the first time he sold Medic First Aid, a publisher of CPR and first-aid training materials, the business wasn’t even for sale. “We kept saying we weren’t interested,” Clendenen says.

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