Sentences with phrase «of selling to the public»

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Dropbox has a private valuation of $ 10 billion, and though it's uncertain whether it will be able to initially sell shares above it, the stock could trade higher once it's public.

The Copyright Act of 1976 further clarified copyright protection: A copyright owner now has the exclusive right to reproduce the work; prepare spin - off works based on the copyrighted work; and to sell, perform and / or display the copyrighted work in public.

Originally they'd wanted to sell their shares for a big profit after a few years to the unsuspecting public, but since the idea of bankruptcy had been floated, that options was off the table, as the shares had plunged.

All of those, with the possible exception of Mario, are or will be available on other consoles, meaning that Nintendo will have to try and sell the public on the Switch's unique gameplay capabilities.

Today, as even super-hot startups forgo IPOs (at least for now), and some public behemoths turn private, the time has come to recognize the hugely significant contributions of those corporations that choose not to sell their stock to the public.

Seattle's City Council voted on Monday to levy a special tax on sodas and other sugary beverages sold to consumers, becoming the latest of several local government bodies across the country to take such action for the sake of public health.

And given the relative dearth in exits, the city does lack the kind of alumni network that can be found in the U.S. and the U.K. Analysts argue that Berlin needs more entrepreneurs to either take their startups public or sell them for a hefty sum, so that those players can reinvest in German startups.

Although the couple does not have a public history of selling art, Kushner and Trump are no strangers to the art market.

Many of the CEOs and leadership teams I have worked with over the years have fallen into the same trap: they get overly focused on selling their company to a strategic or financial acquirer or worse, going public.

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for selling oil and gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird.

• Cinven agreed to sell CeramTec GmbH, a Germany - based manufacturer of high performance ceramics, to a BC Partners - led consortium including the Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan.

HOUSTON, April 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLCM) a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing cellular immunotherapies for cancers and orphan inherited blood disorders, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 9,200,000 shares of its common stock, including 1,200,000 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters» full exercise of their option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $ 7.50 per share.

Verizon's move to sell public asset - backed securities follows a variety of similar, private arrangements that the company and other wireless carriers have struck with big banks.

Percentage of this year's CEOs who had an exit strategy when they founded the company: 40 % Percentage of those CEOs whose exit strategy was to go public: 33 % Percentage whose exit strategy was to sell out to another company: 53 %

The idea was to allow apparel manufacturers to sell off what remained of the previous year's lines and slightly damaged goods directly to the public at discounts of up to 70 %.

The company plans to sell shares at between $ 12 and $ 14, which Fortune calculates would place Twilio at a public market capitalization of around $ 1.07 billion, which is higher than its last private market valuation.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

Companies spend enormous resources trying to «go public,» meaning that it becomes legal to sell stock to lots of people.

These employees and investors have stock in a company that they can tell is doing well, and they want to sell it to the public and make a lot of money.

The windfall, related to contractual obligations Yahoo has with Alibaba to sell half of its 24 percent stake once it goes public, could be worth $ 8 billion or more, according to some estimates.

That study found that most investors see Aramco having a market capitalisation of $ 1 trillion to $ 1.5 trillion when it sells shares to the public.

The startup, which has $ 51 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Kraftwerk as well as Autodesk's Spark Investment Fund, now counts Ford as a customer in the company's early access program for its device, which isn't being sold to the general public as of yet.

If and when the company, which makes a line of streaming media players and licenses its software for use on a growing number of smart TVs, goes public, it'll have a few attractive stats it can use to sell itself.

The name and glossy logo serve as the public face of a labyrinthine network of companies that have sold a bewildering array of products online, from colon cleanses to credit reports.

While HP continues to operate its cloud IaaS offering (HP Public Cloud), it now only actively seeks to market and sell this offering as part of a hybrid solution.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

The campaign suffered a public backlash from the start, with critics accusing the company of using racial tension to sell coffee.

He brought Sunset Designs to new heights in stitchery, brought fresh - baked cookie presentation to the public market, helped to develop micro-computer hardware through Government Technology Services, introduced the concept of «Patient and Physician Friendly» robotic surgery, and revolutionized friendly cancer treatments through Pharmacyclics, which recently sold for $ 21 billion.

Chouinard never took Patagonia public, and his iconoclastic ways have spawned a kind of cult around him and his business — a company that tells its customers not to buy what it's selling and ends up more in demand as a result.

A 2012 Gallup poll found that only 5 percent of US adults identify as vegetarians (down from 6 percent in 1999 and 2001), so the ability to convince the public that vegan products can be as flavorful as meat ones is an important sell.

Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday.

Instead of a public sale of shares by the company, insiders and early stockholders will be able to directly sell their shares on an exchange.

The range of exit strategies includes taking the company public through an initial public offering (IPO), selling the company to a strategic acquirer, or recapitalizing and selling the firm to the management team, also known as a management buyout.

Susan Alt, senior vice president of public affairs for Volvo Group North America, said the EPA's proposal «makes a mockery» of the company's investments to develop clean diesel engines and will «hurt a large number of small businesses who are not selling glider vehicles.»

The crown prince desperately needs the revenue and the highest possible valuation for the piece of Saudi Aramco that is set be sold to the public.

But elected politicians have little chance of selling the public on what needs to be done.

«When I was chairman... there began to grow up a practice of managements deciding to sell non-voting stock to the public....

One bank exec who oversees US IPOs said this was «not a replacement for an IPO» since Spotify wasn't raising any money, one of the traditional purposes of an offering — to sell a portion of the company to the public to finance more growth.

That aspect of him bubbled into public view with Compuware, the Detroit - based business software maker that eventually sold to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 2.4 billion in 2014 as a result of Elliott's campaign.

But in that moment Orr opened the door to a nine - year struggle during which his marriage would end, he would take a company public and then sell it, plunge into depression, drop out of the workforce, and take another company public, all while searching for a way to be a good boss and a good person.

Owned the Seattle SuperSonics pro basketball team, which moved to Oklahoma in 2006 when he sold it after the city of Seattle refused public funding for a new arena

The City Attorney says that MonkeyParking — an app that allow users to pay for information about available spots — is selling the use of public parking spaces, not information.

After nearly 150 years of catering to the wealty elite and helping fast - growing startups either go public or sell themselves to larger competitors, Goldman Sachs is finally getting into the consumer lending market, and will soon offer small personal loans.

Selling a bill of goods to investors, partners, federal regulators, the media, patients and the public is not business as usual.

Now, as the company prepares to go public Wednesday, some investors are wondering: If GoPro keeps selling millions of cameras, then what other publicly traded companies could get a lift?

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

And while crowdfunding looks promising, enactment of the Title III section of the JOBS Act that would allow small businesses to sell equity to the public has been postponed until the end of the year or longer.

Likewise, he has no interest in going public — «We think we're the best stewards of our journey» — and, while he says he'd never categorically rule out selling the company, it's clear the price would have to be very, very right.

«After we acquire enough companies and build up three years of audited financial statements from them,» Busch explains, «the public shell will sell stock, and we'll use the proceeds to pay off the original owners.»

The cost of entertainment goods and services that are available to the public for free as promotional items or sold to customers, such as on a cruise ship or a dinner theater, are fully deductible.