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That or just be the first to proclaim your product works on this new fangled thingy called the Internets and ride the ipo wave to the top while cashing out befo
by alaskamiller 19y ago
That or just be the first to proclaim your product works on this new fangled thingy called the Internets and ride the ipo wave to the top while cashing out before the crash. But your way sounds nifty too I guess.
- apathy 19y agoYour description is far closer to the truth, as it happens. It's amazing how many times that simple formula was executed in the span of about 24 months while I was living in SF. (Then again, most attempts failed, some quite spectacularly) Don't forget to throw in some magic XML sauce when pitching it to the business types.
- alaskamiller 19y agoI wasn't being facetious, that's really what happened with Ariba. I remember seeing their ipo on MarketWatch or something and everyone rejoiced because their stock hit billions but the talking heads on tv didn't know how to explain what it was they were doing except saying World Wide Web a lot. I think they're worth like 9 bucks per share now. I remember watching VA Linux's ipo as well. They profiled Larry Augustin and the company as their ticker went to 300 bucks. They then showed him walking on a street and asking him what he's going to do now that he's worth a billion dollars on paper and he dropped off mail into the mailbox and said he was going to finally pay back his credit card bills. Oh, Dot-com Boom, how I miss you.
- apathy 19y agoI wasn't being facetious, that's really what happened with Ariba. I know -- those guys were friends of mine in the Mission. I wasn't being facetious either; I was there too...
- alaskamiller 19y agoLet's be really serious together.