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...]
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...]
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...]
Book Review: “Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?”
We all know the names: Target, Equifax, Sony, Yahoo, Marriott. If you were directly affected by those cyber breaches, you might even remember where … [Read more...]
Three Examples from ‘18 of How Better-Governed Companies Make More Money
At the end of every year, I try to pass along to CEOs some of the best examples I came across from the preceding 12 months – examples of how and why … [Read more...]
