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- How Much Would Mozilla Fetch on the Market?
- Netscape and Internet Explorers will come and go, but Mozilla will stand forever -- or at least many would like to think so. But what if they went public? Would it "undermine" the entire mission of Mozilla? It seems the conspiracy theories about such a possibility have been bouncing...
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Selling Shares of Your Business
- People sell shares of a company to raise funds or to eventually sell the company. Shares can be sold to angel investors, venture capitalists, individuals, and other businesses. These different types of buyers will have different motives for buying, expectations of the dividends they may receive, and intentions for selling...
- Articles 2007-09-27
- What Year Had the Most IPOs?
- There were a record 768 initial public offerings in 1996 -- the proverbial high water mark. Times have changed since that fateful year Yahoo! went public. This year should exceed the 236 IPOs of 2006, but won't even come close to 1996. The IPOs making the headlines...
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Vonage Losing Customers: Who and What's to Blame?
- Although Internet phone service provider Vonage added 57,000 customers this quarter, Comcast, which bundles VoIP with other broadband services, added more than ten times more subscribers -- taking over as the industry leader. While Vonage founder and CEO Jeffrey Citron attributes the stalling customer growth to decreased advertising...
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Daily Dispatch: Blackstone Group, Toyota, BP, U.S. Economy
- Blackstone Group had the sixth-richest IPO in U.S. history today, with stock prices spiking more than 20 percent. Excitement about the private-equity industry helped boost the share prices, despite criticism of the lavish incomes of the group's executives, who will receive the bulk of the income from the...
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Oracle, Blackstone, GE, and Icahn
- Oracle sued long time rival SAP AG yesterday for what it called "corporate theft on a grand scale." Oracle claims that SAP used customers' online access codes to copy thousands of Oracle software products onto its own servers. In the past three years, Oracle has spent $20 billion buying up...
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- One online bookstore take a different path
- This article focus on online shopping that give a new path to the customers. In the mid 90s, two booksellers set up shop online. Just a few years later, their business models couldn't be more different. In the mid 90s, before "e-commerce" was a household word, an online bookseller appeared...
- White papers 2000-05-03
- Hurt By Hard Times, Financial Services Firms Seek New Directions
- The article says that past decade has been a tumultuous one for investors and for the financial services industry. The last half of the 1990s seemed, in many ways, the best of times. A soaring stock market created vast amounts of wealth and funded the startup of thousands of new...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Pursuing Value Through Liquidity: Share Retention, Lockup, and Underpricing in IPOs
- This paper proposes that in an initial public offering IPO, pre-IPO owners make decisions regarding share retention, share lockup, and underpricing to improve liquidity, which in turn increases the value of shares they retain. We suggest that underpricing will increase the number of investors following the stock and foster more...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Trial by IPO
- An initial public offering IPO of a company's stock to the investing public stresses a CEO, CFO and other senior managers. Article asserts that life for the corporate communications director is different in a public company. There is greater need to disclose what the company is doing, a greater attention...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Decisions
- There are numerous considerations, which must be addressed in the decision to going public. Many of the considerations and decisions are very technical and could have both a short term and a long-term impact on the company. Such decisions should be made with the help and advice of professionals who have...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Methods for Going Public
- There are several different options available to companies desiring to go public. Each has its own advantages, disadvantages, state and federal requirements, time constraints, and costs. Careful consideration should be given as to the method used to achieve a public company, and the advise of professionals should be sought. There are...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- On the Decision to Go Public: Evidence from Privately-held Firms
- We test recent theories of when companies go public which predict that 1) more companies will go public when outside valuations are high or have increased, 2) companies prefer going public when uncertainty about their future profitability is high, and 3) firms whose controlling shareholders enjoy large private benefits of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows
- Google performance is the envy of executives and engineers around the world. For techno-evangelists, Google is a marvel of Web brilliance, for Wall Street, it may be the IPO that changes everything. But Google is also a case study in savvy management -- a company filled with cutting-edge ideas, rigorous...
- Case studies 2003-04-01
- Spin-Sanity
- The old tax-free spin-off is a good bet. With the current market so dreadful for both initial public offerings and the outright sale of operations, what does one do these days if one needs to cut a subsidiary loose? As is often the case in market slumps, tax-free spin-offs have...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Acquiring For Cash
- With IPOs out of the question, some venture capital-backed companies are buying entities for their liquid assets. Buying a company for its cash rather than its business may seem avaricious, but experts say the merger-and-acquisition technique is being used increasingly in the current downturn to gain liquidity at relatively little...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- The Debt Route--Dividend Recapitalizations On The Rise
- Even as a newly public Yell Group in Europe and a proposed equity offering from Yellow Pages Group in Canada give private equity groups new cause for optimism, an increasing number of financial sponsors have been able to turn not to equity, but to debt to bolster their fund returns....
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Analyze This! An IRR Report Card for the Class of 1999-2000
- Venture capital firms are playing hard to get these days, claiming that they have learned their lessons from last year's devastating market losses. The article looks at the IRRs for group of companies that went public between the last quarter of 1999 and the last quarter of 2000. It selects...
- White papers 2001-01-25
- Credit Crunch: When Will Junk Return?
- The optimism prompted by the recent Fed rate cut gave an immediate boost to less speculative investments. Both junk bonds and initial public offerings slowed to a trickle late last year, cramping the ability of many new or otherwise struggling firms to raise money. Not surprisingly, the bulk of this...
- White papers 2001-01-12
- Managerial Opportunism? Evidence From Directors' And Officers' Insurance Purchases
- Managers choose to spend corporate resources to purchase directors' and officers' liability insurance, which protects directors and officers from personal financial liability in lawsuits brought against the firm and its directors and officers. This article investigates whether the amount of D&O insurance coverage chosen by managers of IPO firms, and...
- White papers 2000-08-11
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