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What Drives Insider Sales Before IPOs

The Horizons Tracker

2021 was a record year for initial public offerings (IPOs), with over $155 billion raised in the US alone. billion in shares in these companies, with many arguing that this indicates a lack of quality in the IPO itself. “Sales of insider shares have been extensively shown to have a negative effect on IPO performance.

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Data Highlights The Slowdown In Startup IPOs During 2022

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Tough times and unusual uncertainties kept market volatility at elevated levels and led to subdued IPO activity,” EY explains. “We are seeing investors being more selective and a shift to IPO stories related to energy transition and ESG.”.

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0404 | Do IPOs Hurt Innovation?

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Interesting new research from Shai Bernstein at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business suggests that companies that go public experience a significant decline in innovation post-IPO. Hitting an Innovation wall doesn’t have to be the fate of all companies post-IPO, you just have to train your investors properly.

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Remaining Innovative After Going Public

The Horizons Tracker

Startups are renowned for their creativity and innovation, but this can often dry up once the unique pressures of going public are imposed on a firm. Research from Duke University explores why some companies have managed to remain innovative after going public while others have struggled. Free from pressure.

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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. Spreading change. Uncertain spread.

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

N2Growth Blog

For two decades she focused on organizations that were doing nothing short of reinventing capitalism by introducing innovative new business models. 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.

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Research Explores The Returns From An Educated CEO

The Horizons Tracker

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. The study indicates that possessing a top academic degree, namely a Ph.D. are more likely to collaborate with VC firms that offer complementary management expertise.