I would like to test the water with a few shares to start.
How many shares do you want? The reason I want to sell all 50 shares at once is because I don't want to take any more of friedcat's time than I have to. I may consider selling a chunk of 20 or 25 though.
If you only want a few, you're probably better off buying shares in one of the passthoughs, on BTCT.co or bitfunder.com. Right now they're selling for less than I'm asking, and I'm not going to reduce my asking price any further.
They're a steal right now on those exchanges actually, especially with yesterday's news that they're going to have another 50,000 GH/s online by the end of next month. I'm hanging on to the vast majority of my position, the only reason I'm selling at all is that I need to free up some coins for a big expansion in another area. They'll be trading ~2 BTC/share at that time if BFL continues to delay... not to mention how large the dividends will be.