Taking Your Startup Public Is Fraught With Negatives
Category: BUSINESS
In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO -- Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still less than half the rate of 15 years ago. Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague.
By Marty Zwilling, ContributorVeteran Start-up Mentor; Executive, 2015-02-01