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9 Business Acronyms You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. Most recently, the mass media has been concerned with the Facebook IPO. Several on- and offline resources serve as references and reminders of this important framework; a simple search can help you fall into the GAAP.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. cents or 6.25 In my view, this is a myopic analysis for one simple reason.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

To put this in perspective, despite the media frenzy around when the UK would have its first successful IPO (and let’s be honest, the UK is not short on potential companies that would fit the bill), the only UK startup to IPO in 2013 was tuberculosis diagnostics company Oxford Immunotec for $86 million and that was on NASDAQ.

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