Published: April 27, 2023, 9:45 a.m.
Initial public offerings (IPOs) tapping capital markets on Wall Street sounds glamorous and are a terrific way to fuel business expansion plans.\xa0But too many small and mid-cap companies find themselves at a serious disadvantage after they\u2019ve gone public.Adam J. Epstein believes many of those IPOs facing challenges are rooted in some very common pre-IPO mistakes.Discover what they are and how to be better prepared for them.What You\u2019ll Discover About IPOs\xa0:
- How pre-IPO mistakes plague IPOs and their financing options
- Why historic deal data matters to IPOs
- The most common mistake companies make when picking an investment banker and how it affects IPOs
- How mutual funds run circles around small and mid-cap companies and what you can do about it
- PLUS so much more
Guest: Adam J. Epstein\xa0Adam J. Epstein is a nationally recognized small-cap expert and advisor to the boards of pre-IPO and small-cap companies through his firm, Third Creek Advisors, LLC (TCA).Prior to TCA, Adam was a long-tenured institutional investor, an experience which gives him a comparative perspective on why some small and mid-cap companies are more successful in their post-IPO financing efforts than others.He speaks monthly at corporate governance and investor conferences, and is a distinguished National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow and faculty member.Adam is also the small-cap contributing editor for\xa0Directorship\xa0magazine, the boardroom intelligence publication of the National Association of Corporate Directors, as well as the author of the best-selling book\xa0
The Perfect Corporate Board: A Handbook for Mastering the Unique Challenges of Small-Cap Companies.Related Resources:If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other\xa0
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