Exit Strategies

At the end of the line, there’s only one big decision left to make - how exactly do I end this? Admittedly, I’ve thought very little about exit strategy from the time I started Lopico. When I started in 2004 - or rather before I started - I thought about it a bit more. I thought there would be a quick exit, I knew it would be a runaway success. I was wrong. I was not very internet savvy, and beyond the things I’d read in print magazines, I didn’t know much about the true nature of the internet as a business. I had to learn quickly, and I did. Now, I’m coming to the end of this journey that produced a website, that though not a runaway billion dollar success, was in many ways a great triumph. It’s here that I find myself once again forced to think about exit strategies. There’s a good chance I could sell the site, but I’m not sold on the idea just yet. A part of me just wants to shut it down and move on. A part of me wants to keep everything and relaunch in a year. The only thing I know for sure is that there’s at most one month left of Lopico, and then the exit (at least publicly) will be complete.