Raising money from the public market March 27, 2008

Public markets used to be available only to larger companies with a long history of profitability. Today, a variety of companies with varying degrees of profitability and revenue growth may be candidates for public financing depending mainly on future prospects. Access to capital growth through public markets offers greater access to capital, but many promising small companies cannot obtain funding because they are private.

With the burst of the tech bubble and stiffer corporate governance rules, many companies have chosen to keep their startups private or sell them to a rival rather than take them public. However, when funding dries up, they can't grow or scale the company fast enough and many of them are now looking at public markets for increased funding.

Join a panel of leading experts who have taken their company public or helped to take a client of theirs public over the past year as they share their insights into the best practices and strategies you need to consider if you are thinking of going public in the next 12-18 months?

What are the different forms of "Going IPO"? Which approach do you take and when?
What are the pre-IPO preparations that you need to be aware of?
IPO vs Reverse Merge vs Shell - What to consider and when?
What you should know about going public if the market enters a recession?
Impact of Sarbanes Oxley on IPOs - What you need to know?
What steps should a pre-IPO company take to qualify for and contain costs including insurance?
Lessons from successful IPO's - What to do/ What not to do?

For more information on the panel and the event, please visit www.techcoire.com

$50 (before 3/24) ; $65 after - Includes Free Drink.

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