"Bakery or ShareValue"
The funds from the sale of my shares had I been able to sell them to my friend were enough to start a small bakery. That was my passion and I really wanted to do so. However, I felt a strong pull to start ShareValue but knew it would cost me twenty times as much as I had, and I would be extremely dependent on raising capital and therefore partners.
My inquiries about putting together a management team went well, and I soon found myself at a point where I needed to decide. I very much wished I had the funds to do the bakery [I did not want partners in the bakery] but decided I should just focus on ShareValue and in May 1999, we incorporated.