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The advantages, drawbacks, and practical advice for IPOs, direct listings, and SPAC mergers.
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What’s really behind the IPO pop? TL;DR: it’s Economics 101. The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time.
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What to make of IPO prices and the headlines hyping their rise or fall? Pricing an IPO is way more art than science.
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Jeff Jordan, JD Moriarty, Sonal ChokshiThere are the things that you carefully plan — the who (the bankers); the what (the pricing); and the when. But then there are the things that you don’t plan: like a financial crisis.
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Here are the facts: About two decades ago, we used to have 300 IPOs per year. Since then, that average has fallen by more than half. Why?
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A look at the market dynamics around the Square IPO and, more broadly, what it can teach us about private vs. public valuations (and investors).
Path to IPO
Going public is not the same as being a public company. How to be ready to go public and be public.
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When you go public, your company’s performance suddenly has a real-time scoreboard: your stock price. And that price has a huge impact on your business.
A founder’s perspective on what leaders should do starting a year or two out, in rough chronological order.
How pricing works, how post-IPO activity is influenced by the 4 types of stock market investors, and how we can improve the less-than-ideal price discovery of IPOs.
Some of the common myths and misconceptions around direct listings (and IPOs), as well as the details and nuances of true pricing, investor days, forward guidance, and more.
An investor’s perspective on the financial discipline, disclosures, planning and delivering to plan, and strategic direction it takes to go public.
Building your board forward from product-market fit—instead of backward from an IPO date—makes it easier to find the right advisors at the right time as you scale.
All Path to IPO Content
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Jeff Jordan, JD Moriarty, Sonal ChokshiThere are the things that you carefully plan — the who (the bankers); the what (the pricing); and the when. But then there are the things that you don’t plan: like a financial crisis.
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A look at the market dynamics around the Square IPO and, more broadly, what it can teach us about private vs. public valuations (and investors).
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The advantages, drawbacks, and practical advice for IPOs, direct listings, and SPAC mergers.
-
What’s really behind the IPO pop? TL;DR: it’s Economics 101. The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time.
-
What to make of IPO prices and the headlines hyping their rise or fall? Pricing an IPO is way more art than science.
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Here are the facts: About two decades ago, we used to have 300 IPOs per year. Since then, that average has fallen by more than half. Why?