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If your company is successful, there are basically two significant events that can lead to a major payday for you and your investors: your company goes public (shares of your company are publicly traded on the open market) and your company is bought out by a larger corporation.\u00a0 If you choose to go public with your company, you may also choose to stick it out as CEO and see just how far your business can grow.\u00a0 If your company is bought out by a larger corporation, then the ride may be over, albeit with a significant going away present.\u00a0 For those who move on from their business, there are those who become \u201cserial entrepreneurs\u201d meaning that they love the process of building companies so much that they make a career out of starting them.\u00a0 If you should choose to leave the world of starting companies, regardless of your previous success or failure, there is the chance that you have gotten to know the venture capital industry well enough that you decide to be on the other side of the entrepreneurial roller coaster of funding.\u00a0 Luckily, you are likely to have done some networking and have built credibility for knowing how to (and just as importantly, how not to) run a company, which will be very helpful in securing a position within a venture capital firm.<\/p>\r\n
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