Monday, September 06, 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Lise Buyer's company: CLASS V GROUP, LLC - Guiding Private Companies Through the Whitewater of a Public Equity Offering
1) Is this really the right time for your company to go public? Are there minimum milestones? 2) What, besides putting cash in the bank, are you trying to accomplish with the IPO? 3) Is an IPO the best option now? What about late-stage private or hybrid liquidity options? 4) How do you select investment bankers who will keep your company's interests first? 5) How will you get attention from the right analysts? 6) NASDAQ or NYSE ? 7) What can I do to minimize the risk of leaving too much money on the table? Are auctions a viable choice? 8) Does it make more sense to hire an in-house IR team or use an outside firm? 9) What convinces a fund manager to buy at the IPO rather than letting the issue season in the marketplace? 10) Which time-consuming parts of the process need your complete attention and which can be delegated? CLASS V GROUP, LLC
10 Questions for any Company Considering an IPO Now
Huffpo: World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers Of 2011: See The 31 Most Innovative Start-Ups
"See the 31 innovative and visionary Technology Pioneers in the slideshow link. You can learn more about the selection process and companies from the World Economic Forum."
Technology Pioneers 2011: Empowering People and Transforming Society
http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Technology%20Pioneers/TechnologyPioneers/index.htm
The Technology Pioneer class of 2011 is giving consumers and businesses more control over their impact on the environment in other ways. For the first time since the World Economic Forum launched its Technology Pioneers Programme 11 years ago, the number of clean tech companies equals the number of information technology companies. This is no accident, the pressure to become more energy efficient has never been greater for businesses, not just because of regulatory concerns but because like consumers, businesses want to be seen as socially responsible.
Technology Pioneers 2011 Brochure (PDF)
Technology is clearly empowering people in all walks of society by giving them more information, more options, a bigger voice in the world around them and more control over their own health and their impact on the environment. Technological advances that allow an unprecedented level of collaboration and cooperation in real time mean that acting on that information has never been easier.
| Energy and Environment | Information Technologies and New Media | Life Sciences and Health |
| Digital Lumens | Aster Data | Adimab |
| Ecovative Design | Atlassian | Ion Torrent * |
| Ferrate Treatment Technologies | foursquare | Medicine in Need (MEND) |
| Flexoresearch Group | GetJar | Molecular Partners |
| Novacem | Knewton | Neuronetics |
| On-Ramp Wireless | Layar | |
| OPOWER | NetQin Mobile | |
| Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies | OpenDNS | |
| Quintas Renewable Energy Solutions | ReputationDefender | |
| TaKadu | Scribd | |
| Tendril | SecondMarket | |
| Topell Energy | Spotify | |
| Transonic Combustion | Vortex Engineering |
* Ion Torrent was named a Technology Pioneer 2011 prior to its acquisition by Life Technologies
PRNewswire: RealNetworks Appoints Janice Roberts to Board of Directors
RealNetworks®, Inc., (Nasdaq: RNWK) today announced that Janice Roberts has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors, bringing the number of Board members to nine, including seven independent directors. "We are pleased to have Janice's knowledge and experience in the wireless communications industry on our Board," saidKalpana Raina, chairperson of the Board's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. "As RealNetworks is focusing its strategic transformation on the delivery of mobile media applications and services, her industry background in mobile, wireless and networking companies will provide us with valuable technical and business perspective for our growth initiatives." Janice Roberts is a Managing Director with Mayfield Fund, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, where she primarily focuses on mobility, wireless communications and consumer industries. Prior to her current position, she held various executive positions at 3Com Corporation, most recently those of President of 3Com Ventures, the investment division of 3Com Corporation, and Senior Vice President, Business Development and Global Marketing.