Companies approaching the public market for the first time face a long list of new challenges in navigating the listing process and developing the skills needed to address new sets of stakeholders in the regulatory and investor space.
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With Part 1 of our blogs in mind, here are some comments and recommendations regarding those new dimensions to be addressed in Part 2: Build a Strong “Financial Engine”; Develop a Robust, Well-articulated Strategy; Employ a “Best of Breed” Professional Support Team; Create an Effective Capital Market Messaging Capability; Fully Understand and Comply with All Regulatory Mandates.
Congratulations, you are a public company… Now what? (Part 2) Read More »
Once a company has passed the milestone of becoming a publicly traded company and achieving a listing on a major stock exchange, a whole new set of tasks, issues and required capabilities must be addressed. In this Part 1 of our blog we will take a look at the two pillars of the companies: Corporate Leadership and Board of Directors.
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All agree that recruiting, selecting, evaluating and compensating the CEO is one of the most important roles independent Directors of public companies fulfill. Some would argue that it is the most important responsibility of the Board in that it is through the CEO that the Board exerts actual operational control of the business. With that background in mind, here are some comments and recommendations regarding those critical Board tasks.
Public Company Boards and the CEO – A key relationship Read More »
In the summer of 1991, I came across a research paper from MIT Media Lab on their demonstration of interactive voice communications over Ethernet, a year or two earlier. That was an exciting confirmation of the viability of duplex voice communication over “high speed” local area networks (LAN), as I was developing advanced distributed real-time systems at the TRW Space and Defense sector.
Last month, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) announced the full commercial operation of the 3.5GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) for broadband and 5G applications.
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As a Cal engineering alumnus and a prior founder, it was a delightful opportunity to attend the South Bay Meetup of the Berkeley Founders’ Pledge on Feb. 6, hosted by Bessemer Venture Partners in their new downtown Redwood City office. A roomful of Cal alumni, comprising both current and past entrepreneurs and investors, provided a target rich environment to pick up good vibes on some of the hot trends.
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27% of the total IPOs in 2019 were closed via SPAC process, in comparison to the 19% in 2018, or the 17% prior to that. SPACs are slowly replacing IPOs due to advantages related to certainty of pricing, speed of the process to IPO, flexibility of the financial deal, ability to disclose financial projections, and the option of getting cash at closing for the target company. In 2019, 59 SPACs raised $13.6B, the largest year for SPAC issuance.
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The highly anticipated start of the 5G services deployment in 2019 took the limelight in the networking market space last year.
Higher bandwidth and faster web downloads aren’t the only promised benefits of 5G. Lots of people have worked hard to specify all sorts of new services that will be enabled by 5G, from real-time, low latency vehicle-to-vehicle communications, bandwidth partitioning, to low power IoT messaging, and more.
Rising Networking Startups – From Cowen Networking & Cyber Security Summit Read More »
Last month, professional investment community, industry experts, global private and publicly traded companies covering a broad range of markets met in New York at UBS Global TMT Conference for mutual engagements, investigate investment opportunities, and discuss industry trends and challenges. GigCapital being a private to public equity (PPE) investment company, our eyes were on the late growth, interesting, and fast-growing companies from the private sector.
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