A recent guest post on PubCoCEO.com by Joshua Levine & Robert Ferri looked at “Intelligent IR: Research-Driven Investor Relations for Small and Microcap Companies.” In the post, the authors made the point that publicly traded companies should act like one. Those in the microcap space have probably become accustomed to corporate executives of micro- and small-cap firms complaining about the expense
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Guest Post By: Joshua Levine & Robert Ferri On January 3, the European Union’s ambitious regulatory reforms, known as MiFID II, took effect. While the aim is to create unprecedented transparency and curb conflicts of interest, the regulation is upending security markets. Central to MiFID II is bringing accountability to the market for investment research. Under the new framework, asset managers and
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Rob Bernshteyn – CEO of Coupa (NASDAQ: COUP) – shared a post on Fortune titled “Forget Snapchat and Blue Apron—Here’s Why Going Public Is Still a Good Idea.” Bernshteyn says that going public was absolutely worth it and shares some common negative misconceptions about being a public company; Opening Your Financials To The World Is Bad – According to Bernshteyn
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In a recent post on OddBallStocks.com, Nate Tobik explores “The blessing and curse of being public“. Management teams of nano-cap to mega-cap public companies often blame their companies’ struggles on the costs and complexities of being public while some private management teams think the ‘capital markets’ are a solution to their business problems. At the end of the day, Tobik says the
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In a LinkedIn post last week, Andrew Befumo -(CEO of Small Biz Support, LLC) shared some advice for “Saving On Small-Cap Compliance Expense“. According to Befumo, “as much as 60% of the legal costs of running a smaller public company could be saved if the company knew how to talk to the lawyers, accountants, auditors and other professionals that serve them.”
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