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Ask HN: If your startup ever goes public, what stock symbol would you use?
Would you use one that somehow spelled out your company name(Google - GOOG) or would pick one that spelled out your product(SUN - JAVA) or would you pick one that spelled out your niche(AVIS - CAR) or something completely random?
- bgnm2000 18y agoEXC (granted I have yet to check whether it exists)
- mahmud 18y agoBefore you go public, or selling for that matter, make sure your startup is not your life's work. My first project was one I worked on since I was 16 and sold it when I was 24. Granted, it wasn't a startup but a software product, it was to me a combination of high school, college and graduate school. When I sold it and signed the ridiculous non-compete papers, I had NOTHING else to work on. Even the much taunted liberal arts PhDs get to keep their titles; I kept nothing. (sure, I was happy to sell it by then, because I was burned out, but it might have been better to delay the negotiations until I was in a better emotional and financial state and was optimistic about the future.) I know this is tangential to the topic at hand, but had to air my grievances to warn someone else who might be tying their startups with their personal identities.
- medianama 18y agoWEB - not sure if its available
- medianama 18y agoor WWW
- csomar 18y agoI prefer to use the first choice, (Google - GOOG) or (Microsoft - MSFT) as it's unique and represent my company
- cmars232 18y agoFSCK or ARGH would be funny symbols. Honestly, I wouldn't care much about what it was called at that point. My eyes would be big glazed-over dollar-signs.