{"id":8402,"date":"2016-08-16T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2016-08-16T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T19:06:41","slug":"breaking-down-entrepreneurships-exit-events-i-e-liquidity-via-ipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/breaking-down-entrepreneurships-exit-events-i-e-liquidity-via-ipos\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down Entrepreneurship&#8217;s Exit Events (i.e. Liquidity via IPO&#8217;s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trash cans around Palo Alto got me thinking about tech founders. The opening for IPO is much, much smaller.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image1-13.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"E95531E1-77FA-4377-9226-72A73025D7F4\"><\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/765562923255078912?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">8\/16\/16, 7:56 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Entrepreneurship breakdown. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hYME40sIod\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/hYME40sIod<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image2-7.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"FECEBEB5-6BD7-459D-8271-775447AF20AD\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">The trash can is wiling to take on more stock listings, but this pizza box will just dam up.&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/765566330967724033?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/16\/16, 8:10 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">They made the hole (target) smaller.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23entrepreneurship&amp;src=hash\">#entrepreneurship<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pJdTEHjV0A\">pic.twitter.com\/pJdTEHjV0A<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image3-6.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" id=\"FCAAEDB2-CA48-4A59-9947-2836CE0D1048\"><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS\">Download<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/765571328753541120?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">8\/16\/16, 8:30 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Very common: a lot of companies are in holding pattern waiting to IPO&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23bottleneck&amp;src=hash\">#bottleneck<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QBQfWrysp9\">pic.twitter.com\/QBQfWrysp9<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image4-5.jpg\" alt=\"image4.JPG\" id=\"47CDD1E9-CF5B-4BDA-85D7-162A9C3BBE76\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Trash is overflowing&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image5-4.jpg\" alt=\"image5.JPG\" id=\"82E1F757-49BE-46AF-BF9B-557C3F0367F8\"><\/div>\n<div>Tim the Beaver builds dams too. [photo credit Professor Bob Metcalfe&#8217;s selfie]<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Trash cans around Palo Alto got me thinking about tech founders. The opening for IPO is much, much smaller.&nbsp; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 8\/16\/16, 7:56 AM Entrepreneurship breakdown. pic.twitter.com\/hYME40sIod The trash can is wiling to take on more stock listings, but this pizza box will just dam up.&nbsp; Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 8\/16\/16, 8:10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}