Bahadur's final lesson

摘要

When Nigel Bahadur, founder and sole principal of Structured Markets Inc., cashed in on his software company's initial public offering, he was looking for new horizons to conquer. When the person he chose to handle his windfall from the IPO underperformed, he took the reins of his own portfolio and found his next challenge. "My financial advisors were totally screwing up and I thought I could do better, and that is how it started," Bahadur says. Bahadur was senior VP of research and development for EXE Technologies, Inc., as well as an owner. He spent 10 years helping to grow the software company and its predecessor, Neptune Software Inc., from a small operation to one with 600 employees in 13 countries prior to its IPO in 2000. EXE did not IPO at the ideal time, but it did earn Bahadur enough to retire and focus on his investments.