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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 . […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
KEY LESSON: Don’t be greedy There are a lot of things that can go wrong in an IPO, a truth about which I have seen far too many examples. It […]