Four years after establishing his company in the Northern California suburb of Rancho Cordova, Bill Heinselman was stunned when he was offered $1.5 million for the operation. The deal also included a lucrative salary and benefits package for Heinselman and his wife, Sang, a civil engineer who runs the office and handles project management and bid proposals.“I was flattered,” Heinselman says. “But we had doubled our revenue from 2010 to 2011. At the time of the offer – it was May – we had done $800,000 in revenue, which was what we had seen the entire year before. I expected
