But as Manjoo points out,
going public means, inevitably, bowing to the pressures of shareholders, who want their money's worth.
Not exact matches
The cloud company plans to
go public in early 2018,
meaning it could be one of the biggest U.S. enterprise technology companies to list domestically in recent years.
In a press briefing before the launch, a Facebook project manager denied that the new features are
meant as a competitive response to Snapchat (SNAP), which just
went public and now has a market value of $ 27 billion.
That doesn't
mean Airbnb will
go public next year — though it sure sounds like it might — but rather that it plans to be finished the process of getting «ready» by next year.
Rumors swirled throughout 2016 that Pinterest was on the brink of
going public, but its most recent influx of funding
means an IPO could be delayed even further.
«What it's
meant to do is... just to make sure that the work stoppage is not
going to affect the health and safety of the
public....
Going public would
mean greater scrutiny and expectations for consistent growth, a combination that would work against Uber while it faces regulatory uncertainty and fierce competition in across the globe, he says.
If we
go back to determining what success
means, some people think the answer is obvious: Flashy cars, big homes, a
public profile... but that's not how I define success.
The areas listed are those where
public opinion has generally been close to the UK average,
meaning that the way these places vote could be a strong indicator of the way the country as a whole
goes.
Companies spend enormous resources trying to «
go public,»
meaning that it becomes legal to sell stock to lots of people.
The
public outcry has also pushed up the regulatory costs to get a GM seed approved, Adamchak
went on to say,
meaning the institutions that can most easily pursue the technology are corporations.
The trend is partly driven by the fact that
going public is no longer the only — or even the primary —
means for a company to grow.
That
means that our listing requirements will be more stringent than those of the TSX to make people realize you don't
go public when you're not ready.»
Musk further said that using
public transit
meant rubbing shoulders with «like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer... that's why people like individualized transport, that
goes where you want, when you want.»
But just because a company
goes public doesn't
mean success is guaranteed.
That will probably
mean either accepting a buyout offer or
going public, she says.
This
means the company probably won't
go public until around 11 a.m., Leslie Pfrang, a partner at IPO consultancy firm Class V Group, told Fortune.
While Snap's IPO will by no
means be cheap, that more conservative price - to - sales valuation puts it in line with Twitter (twtr) when that social media company
went public.
But if you're seeing this strictly as a
public relations move
meant to distract us from the evils of Facebook, you need to turn off your computer for a while and
go for a walk.
It's too hard and too costly to
go public and stay
public these days, so there are no small IPOs any more, which
means a lot of small companies are capital constrained and can't grow into large companies (and employ a lot of people in the process).
Potentially, the company could opt for a «direct listing» which would
mean going public without doing an IPO.
What does it
mean when a company «
goes public»?
It is disturbing not because of Bitcoin Core's lack of enthusiasm for standing against Segwit2x, which is the way it appeared, but rather it was the fact that the people who support Segwit2x
went to great lengths to confuse the general
public about Segwit2x, what it
meant, what it would do and even spent a good deal of time convincing people it was not an option, but a requirement; a simple software upgrade.
According to Goolam Ballim, group economist at Johannesburg - based Standard Bank, improvements in
public finances over the past decade
mean less revenues now
go into debt servicing and capital repayment, opening the way for more national investment in infrastructure.
For many VC and PE professionals having a portfolio company
go public used to
mean it was time to give up their board seat.
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public used to
mean it was time to give up their board seat.
I don't know what it all
means except that there were certain temple practices
going on that involved
public sexual performances and Paul would have been aware of that.
Sometimes the museum -
going public may glimpse the private religious
meanings of particular works.
If we are
going to teach a
public ethic of eco-justice, we need
public stories of eco-justice —
public parables that have the capacity to communicate the
meaning of our love for the earth and for people as citizens: the reality of the struggle for eco-justice in the ongoing history of our civic communities.
I am tired of how people who believe in their own «gods» try to shove religion down other peoples throat, what I
mean is if your religion doen not let you support guns then don't support it but also don't try to change it for everyone else who doesn't see it your way, I don't
go around asking for you all's religion to remove crosses from
public view because I don't believe and to remove the bible from
public places (i.e. Hotels, Bookstores, etc.) so it can only be seen in their respective places of workship, Remember WE ALL ARE BORN ATHEIST, YOU ARE NOT BORN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS A GOD, YOUR PARENTS HAVE TO TELL YOU THERE IS A GOD, A DEVIL, HEAVEN AND EARTH... THEN IT BEGINGS.
It
means leaving the privacy ot your solitary labors, moving beyond those expected work relationships in which the product is always the
go - between, and saying or doing something about the human affairs — the
public realm — of that organization or community of which you are a part.
In describing such worship as «
public,» we do not
mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was
public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what
went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.
When those holidays
mean something to the
public, atheists will «
go after» them.
I
mean that a lot of Christians (primarily Christians) feel that they don't need to study something and the fundamental types will probably refuse to
go to a
public school because of this too, because they strongly believe in miracles, and in God that provides all answer's.
The kick - off was scheduled at 13:45 (CAT)
meaning that I will have to leave home at 16:00 pm to
go to work after the game and still have to travel about 173 km using
public transport which is also not easily accessible as I live in a rural area.
Note, however, that soft lines often
mean that
public perceptions are playing «mind games» — and in fact, there is value
going the other way.
Sportsbooks are now shading their lines towards American League teams based on
public perception, which
means this could be an excellent opportunity to
go against the grain and buy low on NL teams — especially in games with low totals.
That
means contrarian bettors can often get free points by simply
going against the grain and fading the
public.
That
means you're not
going to find and value unless you're targeting games with extreme levels of one - sided
public betting and limited sharp involvement.
Does this
mean you should immediately
go bet the Blue Devils because the
public clearly knows something that you don't or do you immediately bet on Wake Forest because any time 81.4 percent of the
public is on one team, they are almost always wrong?
I am empathetic with mothers who can not breast feed, but that doesn't
mean we should forget how difficult it is for mothers who breast feed — glared at when
public feeding, condemned for feeding after one year, constantly being asked if they are «supplementing with formula», having to pump, having to watch what they eat, not being able to
go out for drinks, being up in the night, and, like your comment, judged for breast feeding as a form of soothing.
So she was out in
public with her eight week old son and it says that she was at a cafe and she happened to be breastfeeding her baby and it says an elderly women, in not sure if it actually lists her name or sorry her age, but anyway this elderly women comes up to her and honestly the mom was like «oh no, she's
going to tell me to cover up, she's
going to be like, be
mean about this or you know or how dare I be, you know doing this in
public kind of thing» and the only thing the elderly wanted to do was to help the mom be able to eat.
But I would say that the nipple shield is probably the major the major hurdle just because it didn't make it so much harder especially when you're in
public because you're trying to like to hold the baby and hold the shielding and get comfortable and I
mean I could remember we were at the zoo and he was two months old and it was just before we got off the nipple shield but like trying to hold him and I was wearing him and carry him like keep him in the right position keep the shield in position and like we are out in the sun there's people everywhere it was really hot and noisy and I just wanted to throw that nipple shield in the trash right then, I would have if he like, just
gone with it but...
This
means that anytime we are out in
public one twin needs to
go potty, but the other is a half hour behind, so 30 minutes later the cycle repeats itself.
It also
goes on to say that we are not just talking about
public situations, that last section literally
means that within their own homes and social units, women are being made to feel uncomfortable because they breastfeed.
Going to play at a
public park or walking to school by themselves at age 6, which may be what some parents want to encourage their kids but not something advocated by all parents, is by no
means the only way you can teach kids to be more independent.
SUNNY GAULT: I mentioned in the intro that in most of the States have laws that protect, in most
meaning all but one really has come out and said that the breastfeeding moms have the right to do that in
public, for some reason Idaho, I don't know what's
going on in Idaho, but Idaho is the only one in the fifty States that hasn't created a law for this yet.
We
go to a
public elementary school, which
means religious education is a family choice, and it is done outside of school.
She had said that I really helped her had the confidence to nurse in
public because I always look like it was no big deal and I had shared something at one point in about being nervous in a situation but you know I still breastfed my son but in the back on my mind I'm
going those people over there might not really like what's about to happen and you know I
mean I still did it and it was funny.
That might be the first place I breastfeed in
public as we asked questions, I was sitting there waiting and like I don't know why, though they must be ready to
go [laughs] and so am sitting there and I had my baby and was he probably 5 weeks old and in my head I was like saying, «I should have been here sooner, I should have been here sooner», [laughs] which is irrelevant but that what's
goes through your head and then I was like I guess I just do it and it was the
meanest thing because I'm sitting on the floor with my baby and I didn't have to use the cover and I was just so «Oh, you just have to do it like in a room full of women» and everybody is in just as uncomfortable and everybody is trying to make this dance work and trying to get a rhythm and they needed this thing to be able to do and I would imagine for me it was a good transition to being in publicand not to worry about the cover but also for women like ok, this is your group for example.