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The Ultimate Guide to IPOs

  • 11/ 21

The decision to go IPO is one of the most exciting milestones in a company’s journey—and the start of an incredibly busy and challenging time. While the decision tends to center on the big event, the work leading up to…

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How Corporate Governance Issues Tripped Up WeWork: A Wake-up Call to Startups

  • 10/ 19

Boldness, skyrocketing growth, and claiming to be a tech company—for a time, WeWork had many of the signs of a typical Silicon Valley company. Except it’s based out of New York. It’s actually more of a real estate co…

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The Business Lifecycle: Know the Journey So You Can Plan Ahead

  • 12/ 18

What do you see in the road ahead in 2019? Does it appear more uncertain than sure? Is it paved with growth opportunities or a pullback? For companies large and small, the path forward can take awhile to become clear. At R…

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4 companies make the right moves along the business lifecycle

  • 11/ 17

Every company is at a different stage along the business lifecycle. Some companies have just started out, some are surging forward, some are growing organically and others are fighting against fierce competition. Where is …

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IPO, M&A: Big changes ahead require smart moves at every step

  • 05/ 16

Companies that have made it past the startup stage and are growing like gangbusters have beaten the odds. They’re not only surviving but making it. They’ve branched out their customer base and perhaps their geographic …

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View the finance work around the IPO as a marathon, not a sprint

  • 09/ 15

Going public takes endurance. The whole process—from the decision to go IPO, to the S-1 filing and the roadshow, to the first day of trading and then the post-IPO phase—usually takes longer than expected and puts a maj…

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On the road to IPO? 6 obstacles to avoid at all costs

  • 08/ 15

All eyes are on you when your company goes IPO. Everyone, it seems, wants to know the company’s every move—its past results, its risks, its future projections. Working at a newly public company can make employees feel …

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Can you handle the IPO tsunami?

  • 07/ 15

Executives who take on an IPO ride a long and sometimes unpredictable wave from start to finish. There’s all the debate over whether going public is part of the company’s grand plan, when to make the move, how the busi…

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Hot deals, talent wars and ‘winning’ entrepreneurs: Just another day in Menlo Park

  • 06/ 15

Optimism in the air—that was the first thing you would have noticed at an EY Entrepreneur of the Year® reception at the Rosewood Sand Hill last week. As I walked through the hotel’s reception area, I couldn’t miss …

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The 4 stages of the business lifecycle and how to recognize what you need next

  • 03/ 15

Many companies tend to follow similar patterns as they adapt and change over time. The trajectory is known as the business lifecycle, and we’ve identified four particular stages that companies typically move through from…

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