Y Combinator Diaries Week 5

Re:Y Combinator Diaries Week 5 by billroberts on Friday July 11, 2008 @07:17PM (#244126)

I'm not picking on these guys in particular, because it's a widely used phrase, but does the English language really deserve "liquidity event" instead of, say, "selling the company"?

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Re:Y Combinator Diaries Week 5 by parker on Friday July 11, 2008 @07:47PM (#244158)

What about IPOs, or a leveraged management buyout? Just because acquisitions are the 'en vogue' liquidity event doesn't mean it's the only kind.

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Re:Y Combinator Diaries Week 5 by aaronblohowiak on Friday July 11, 2008 @09:10PM (#244200)

I agree that liquidity event is a more accurate term than "selling the company". If you are looking for something less formal, you can use "cashing out".

While we're on the topic of language: Parker, you may want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar) -- the incongruity between "are" and "it's" in your sentence ain't right.

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Re:Y Combinator Diaries Week 5 by mhb on Saturday July 12, 2008 @06:12PM (#244709)

While you're at it, please also dispose of "functionality".

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