{"id":68,"date":"2007-12-21T23:45:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2007\/12\/21\/are-you-planning-to-go-public\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T23:45:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T03:45:42","slug":"are-you-planning-to-go-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/are-you-planning-to-go-public\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Are you planning to go public?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When interviewing folks for new startup projects, I frequently get asked &#8220;<em>are you planning to go public?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I find this question very annoying, but I&#8217;m not exactly sure why.\u00a0 I think it has to do with goals:\u00a0 an IPO is a more of a milestone than a goal.\u00a0 Asking this question feels like asking a soldier about to go off to war, &#8220;<em>are you planning on winning a medal?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The real goal (if you&#8217;ve got investors) is to build a valuable company.\u00a0 If you do that well, all of the right options (acquisition, IPO, etc.) will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When interviewing folks for new startup projects, I frequently get asked &#8220;are you planning to go public?&#8221; I find this question very annoying, but I&#8217;m not exactly sure why.\u00a0 I think it has to do with goals:\u00a0 an IPO is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/are-you-planning-to-go-public\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}