Initial public offering (Initial Public Offering): For the small bunch of firms that make it this far, you will have the option to money out right now. You will presumably be supplanted as CEO, either in the VC round or the IPO round. You wlll have sustained your brainchild into being, yet it will quickly be detracted from you. This should leave you with enough cash so you will have the option to play a more grounded hand in your next startup. Business people should see that central goal they're accomplishing as a profession, not a one-shot arrangement.