On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:38 PM, peter green wrote:

> its hard to avoid going public on the stock market.
> Once a business does that it's bosses then need to
> satisfy ... investors that they are doing a good job

Before that, actually.  Once you accept Venture Capital,
the VCs will insist on things being run a certain way.
cisco's initial (founding) CEO and CFO were let go
pretty much immediately after acquiring funding, and
the major founders didn't last too far past the IPO.

BillW
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