Note: Venture Beat [http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/18/how-to-stay-semi-independent-after-selling-your-startup/] first published this piece of mine. Last December, my cofounder Todd Zino [http://twitter.com/toddzino]and I sold our startup, Wallaby Financial [https://www.walla.by], to Bankrate [http://www.bankrate.com]. We immediately went from being a team