[eries]

Hey everybody, Eric Ries here, founder of the LTSE. I am coming late to the thread as I’ve been focused on launching my new book and am only seeing this now.

I love a lot of the comments here. I think many of the assumptions both in this piece and in the comments are reasonable guesses about what we are doing - but in a lot of cases wrong.

Part of the reason it has taken me more than five years to figure out how to build this company is that we have to be able to:

1. Offer companies full liquidity and full protection from short-termism even if their stock trades on another exchange or they dual-list

2. Build support among many financial system stakeholders and regulators to get approval to do this

3. Build a multi-disciplinary team that is literate in the arcane ways of SF NY and DC all at once

We aren’t quite ready to take the hood off and reveal how we solved all of these problems quite yet. This is stil a sensitive regulatory process and I’m limited in what I can say publicly. But to the extend I can, I’ll try and answer questions in this thread. Please keep them coming.

Thanks for taking a look at what we are building!

[erikb]

Your name sounds familiar. Can you give a short summary of what else you've been doing?

*edit: Ah, I found something myself. You're the lean startup guy right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_startup

[eries]

Indeed I am :)