Why Uber Should Not Go Public (Yet)
Last week, Venture investor Fred Wilson gave an onstage interview at the Upfront conference which made headlines. He argued that Uber should go public. One of my favorite VC bloggers […]
Category Archives: IPO
Should I Stay or Should IPO?
I haven been working with a number of companies lately who are trying to evaluate the relative merits of staying Independent versus raising Institutional venture funding or selling themselves. This […]
Unicorn Problems? IPO Doldrums
There has been a lot of IPO news lately. First and foremost was the launch of my book on How to Take a Company Public. In the weeks since publication there […]
My IPO book is now available on Amazon
You can buy my new book HERE Introducing “A Practical Guide to IPOs” by Jonathan Goldberg I am excited to announce that I have just published my first book . […]
A Practical Guide to IPOs – Chapter 13: Five Years in the Wilderness
KEY LESSON: The only way to recover from a broken IPO is a string of good results, and a lot of time. One of the last IPOs I worked on […]
Are IPOs going out of Fashion?
Last was a bad one for public markets, at least a bad week for people who believe that tech companies can find a home in the public markets. First, the long-awaited Pure Storage […]
A Practical Guide to IPOs Chapter 12B – Telling a Good Story with Above the Line Numbers
KEY LESSON: Investors hate volatility more than they love growth In the last post, I laid out an approach to providing initial guidance to investors, from the time of the […]
A Practical Guide to IPOs – Chapter 12: The Numbers Game
KEY LESSON: Optimize the model for a secondary offering, not the roadshow In this chapter, I am going to walk through how to prepare a financial model for the analysts […]
A Practical Guide to IPOs- The Eleventh Chapter – How to Tell a Story
KEY LESSON: The IPO roadshow should tell a story that is compelling backed up by real numbers. In this chapter and the next I am going to walk through […]
A Practical Guide to IPOs: Chapter 10 – Meet the Street
KEY LESSON: Liquidity, as measured by trading volume, matters more than share price No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. Or, if 19th century Prussian generals do not carry […]
