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Publicly Traded Companies + Empire Avenue = Very. Bad. Idea.

Publicly Traded Companies + Empire Avenue = Very. Bad. Idea.

By Maggie Fox on June 16, 2011

You may or may not have heard about Empire Avenue, a social game modeled on the stock market. Basically, you set up a profile, connect it to your social channels, and the more you engage on the social web, the more “eaves” (currency) you earn. There’s a little more to it than that, but that’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Blog, Empire Avenue, Share price, Social Media, Stock | 4 Responses

409A Valuations

409A Valuations

By Jeff Nolan on October 31, 2010

Don Dodge wrote about a very dry but critically important issue facing private companies that issue equity to employees… 409A valuations: IPO bump? – If private investors have already bid up the valuation, will there be an IPO jump in the stock price? Doubtful. This breaks the conventional wisdom about pre-IPO stock options. Companies are […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 409, 409 valuation, Facebook, IPO, options, secondary market, Stock

Lawson & Issues on two fronts: Earnings and Icahn

Lawson & Issues on two fronts: Earnings and Icahn

By Brian Sommer on July 8, 2010

Lawson’s earnings today and the position that Carl Icahn has accumulated in Lawson Software make for an interesting time for software buyers. How might Lawson react?

Posted in Business | Tagged Carl Icahn, Company, Enterprise resource planning, erp, Lawson Software, private equity, Stock | 1 Response

More Fun with Co-CEOs: The Economist Responds (And Still Doesn’t Dissuade Me)

More Fun with Co-CEOs: The Economist Responds (And Still Doesn’t Dissuade Me)

By Josh Greenbaum on March 9, 2010

The author of the column in the Economist that I cited in my last post has written a kind response, defending his position against my slings and arrows.  On one account he is firmly correct: the article he cited is findable, especially after the correct name of the business journal was published on the Economist’s […]

Posted in Business | Tagged CEO, Co-CEO, Creative destruction, Economist, Management, sap, Stock

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