Five years into being a public company, you can never do that again

After you've launched your business, while you are still privately-owned, "what you have to do is grow very fast, so that some day when you have to really drop a lot of dollars to the bottom line, you've laid in a base that can still grow at maybe 10% or 20% a year.

"Five years into being a public company, you can never do that again."

Serial entrepreneur Kevin Surace