goldfishcaura

I am looking to give my clients ability to invoice me or request money right from the web site. It seems, however, that all embedded flows are geared towards collecting money. What are my options?

So I own a small number (under $100k at latest preferred valuation) of common shares in a very successful SaaS Analytics company that raised cumulatively close to $200mil from all the top investors. If you are in tech and in SV, chances are, your company uses its product. The company has been almost doubling its share price with every sale. And it has always had a healthy Revenue number to power up a big chunk of its growth.

I am currently in a rush to sell these shares. Unfortunately I am the only one former employee with such interest, so the volume is too small for secondary markets to take interest.

I've reached out to several professional liquidity solution companies, but received a low ball offer (price from a previous round). Maybe they expected that I would negotiate up and I missed the signal - regardless, it seems absurd to discount preferred shares at 40-50%. Especially for such a small volume. I mean, what do these guys know without access to company's finances, that Google did not when it invested $80 million (an had access to company's finances)?

So with that, what is you experience? How would you approach the sale of these shares?

Well, I don't mean the likes of Gawker. I mean, a real genuine site for techies to share inside stories anonymously.

Not everyone can afford to put his/her career on the line the way Antonio Garcia Martinez did with his Chaos Monkeys revelations. And while many have one or two major stories to tell, they won't bother putting them all in chronological order by way of Dan Lyons in Disrupted.

Would not it be powerful to tell on wrongful management practices and whatnot anonymously using our own words?

So many SaaS products that I encounter provide little long-term value beyond the initial consulting. It seems companies want to get multiples on their revenue, so they ignore this fact. With that, it is interesting to consider where the consulting industry is heading? How do you see tech consulting in the near-term future? long-term future?

So I have fully exercised shares in a company (where I used to work) that had a D round and received investments from many of the SV's elite VCs. Personal circumstances have forced me to liquidate many of my assets. My network is not large, so what are some ways for me to sell the stock? I've already reached out to second market places, but it seems the volume is less than what they are willing to take on ($100k or less).

Am I just wasting my time thinking of these shares as liquid assets? Should I just keep holding them for another 2 years until the company has an exit through enterprise acquisition (likely by Google) or an IPO?

I spoke to someone from Telegram's inner circe. She explained that the grants are not really given - contrary to this earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11522907 Who here actually submitted a bot for a grant? What is the name of your bot? Have you received your $25k grant?