article thumbnail

Beyond the Transaction: How to Make Business Shifts Successful

CEO Insider

Consider this: Dealogic reports there were 175 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in 2019, while 47 firms were taken private. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Beyond the Transaction: How to Make Business Shifts Successful are those of the author Christine T. I’ve been a CFO at […].

IPO 114
article thumbnail

Using AI To Predict The Success Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

A large part of the team’s success was due to their ability to develop an ensemble of models that were able to work together, thus outperforming any one model on its own. Each model worked to try and classify the startup and assign it a probability of success or failure. Picking winners.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Because of its success and mission, the bank had recently accepted a minority investment from global powerhouse, Bank of America. Should Southern Bancorp consider a public offering in the red-hot IPO NYSE market? In her case study, she focused on the inflection point currently faced by the company. The mission must continue.

CEO 345
article thumbnail

Research Explores The Returns From An Educated CEO

The Horizons Tracker

Alas, research from the University of St Andrews suggests that the education of CEOs plays less of a role than we might think in their ultimate success. However, when examining Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the United States between 1998 and 2018, the researchers discovered that companies with CEOs holding a Ph.D.

article thumbnail

Spotting Where Innovations Are In The Diffusion Lifecycle

The Horizons Tracker

In 1962 Everett Rogers famously described the journey innovations go on as they travel from obscurity to mass market success and through to obsolescence. It’s a process that remains largely observed to this day and being able to spot where an innovation is on the lifecycle is pretty valuable. Uncertain spread.

article thumbnail

Data vs gut: the great decision making debate

Chartered Management Institute

Arm, the Cambridge-based tech company that launched a successful IPO on NASDAQ earlier this month, is responsible for putting hundreds of billions of processors into these data-gathering smartphones, wearables and thermostats. We are humans, and humans make the same successes and mistakes.”

IPO 105
article thumbnail

Investors Need To Do Better At Accurately Assessing The Skills Of Founders

The Horizons Tracker

Recent Harvard research showed that VCs tend to be more successful if they were previously a founder themselves, with this boost typically because their experience means they add more value after they invest in the firm. The researchers were particularly interested in the expertise of the founders and how they chose to present themselves.

Skills 110