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When I wrote this original article nearly two years ago, it was born from seeing companies make a similar mistake time and again. They would wait until they needed the market for something - funds or a vote - and then start communicating. By then it was too late to
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One of my long term goals is to enable listed companies to run an SPP alongside a placement. Having helped facilitate over 2,000 raises, I have often asked the question, “why do SPPs take so long?” From where I sit, the main reason we stick to two-week exposure periods
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Being listed shouldn’t feel like an uphill battle. Yet, many public companies struggle with opaque data and expensive intermediaries. At InvestorHub, we believe being listed should be a superpower.
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Last week’s question to the community was “who owns investor relations at your company?” Here is the breakdown of the 70+ responses that I received: Before I asked the question, my assumption was that “CEO/MD” would have taken up at least 70% of the votes, with boards and
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What do JP Morgan, Colgate Palmolive, Bank of America, and Birkenstock have in common? Their age. They are all over 200 years old - older than your grandfather’s grandmother would be if she were alive today. A public company is its own legal entity, with its own heartbeat, soul,
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I used to play competitive field hockey. For those unfamiliar with the sport, it can be a brutal game - it combines the pace of soccer with the physicality of basketball, oh and everybody carries a wooden stick whilst hitting a giant golf ball at each other. What I’m
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There are millions of dollars hiding in plain sight on your cap table right now. And I know this because I have manually found dozens of them, and have the data to prove it. So in today’s article, we are going to cover: 1. High net worth (HNW) vs
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One of the most compelling stories in the financial markets this week is GYG’s IPO. Despite listing with 85% of its shares held by the top 20 investors, GYG’s IPO has already attracted a significant number of retail investors (GYG accounted for 30% of Thursday's total
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There’s a great story I read about a US start-up (let’s call them “Flame”). With their mobile app, Flame had an excellent take-up rate for new customers. But they struggled to get repeat customers and the issue they diagnosed was that the open rate on their in-app announcements
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Roadshows always look like this. Most roadshows that I’ve witnessed all follow a similar process. (1) Introductions. “Hey, nice to meet you again”. (2) The pitch. A pitch deck comes out quickly and the MD starts into the pitch. There’s usually reference to where things left off, or
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We spoke to twenty-four directors and executives at public companies to ask them for their advice for a new CEO. Here's what they had to say.
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Every passing year, attention spans get shorter. We are all more, and more, contactable. The lines between work and private life blur more. How we communicate and interact with each other changed drastically with the arrival of the smartphone and the evolution of the internet. Not only do those interactions