An awful lot of attention has been afforded the raging SPAC marketplace. Some of the commentary has been objective and additive, while much of it has … [Read more...]
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Unlocking Shareholder Value with One Hard Conversation
I spend most of my time in boardrooms and board meetings.I know it’s been fashionable over the years for people to carp that most boards are … [Read more...]
Emails, Boardrooms, and Attorney-Client Privilege
In each of the 10 years my firm has been in existence, I’ve witnessed a disastrous boardroom situation. All of them had three things in common: (1) … [Read more...]
The Importance of a Great Chair to Small-Cap Boards
I am on the Editorial Advisory Board of Small-Cap Institute, Inc. With SCI’s approval, I thought I would share one of their recent articles that … [Read more...]
Lesson Learned: Brand Stewardship Requires Relentless Vigilance… and Then Some
Last week, I was reading a terrific article to be published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review by Professor Elizabeth Pollman entitled, … [Read more...]
Sorry VCs, Direct Listings Are Not a Magic Elixir
Spotify Technology and Slack Technologies, each multibillion-dollar companies, listed their shares for trading on the New York Stock Exchange in the … [Read more...]
The Case for Deregulating Small-Caps
There are roughly now half the number of companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange as there were in the mid-1990s, … [Read more...]
Small-Cap Boards Can’t Afford to Ignore CEO Communication Skills
Seasoned small-cap fund managers are forensic observers: they parse everything they read and hear. Many have learned that small-caps are risky enough … [Read more...]
Why Today’s Founder CEOs Should Google… Google
Lore has it that when Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page raised some $25 million from venture capital icons Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia … [Read more...]
Small-Cap Takeaways From Facebook’s Year of Falling Face-First
By most measures, 2018 was a tough year for Facebook. In addition to losing nearly a quarter of its stock market value between June and December, … [Read more...]
