Comments on: I Made a Very Risky Investment

By: Buying More Private Stock

Buying More Private Stock — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:55:46 +0000

[...] For the second time in twelve months, I made a very risky investment buying stock options. (You can read about my first risky investment here.) I have invested over $5,000 this time. I bought the stock options that had vested. Using the last [...]

By: lazymanandmoney

lazymanandmoney — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:55:14 +0000

That makes me feel a lot better about it. I don’t expect the company to disappear, it’s fairly successful. However, I would be extremely happy if my $1000+ turned into $15,000. If that happens, I still would have done better with a traditional job rather than the start up.

By: Foobarista

Foobarista — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:16:48 +0000

I always buy options. Once it worked out: the company layed me off in a downsizing, although I bought my options for about $3500. It managed to limp along for awhile, and changed its business and got bought. I walked away with about $50K.