The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved corporate announcements conducted via social media--as long as stockholders are informed of the URL first.
Meg Whitman claims the U.K. firm is guilty of "very concerning accounting improprieties" while Autonomy's former CEO Mike Lynch fights back and accuses HP of mismanagement.
Accessing a company’s S-1 is like getting to peek over the shoulders of giants. You gain access to a competitor’s business plan. It allows entrepreneurs, in particular, to see just how much money it takes to scale a large company, gives good benchmarks to shoot for in growth and margins, and helps entrepreneurs understand what is market in terms of management compensation.
One of the companies run
by an investment fund housed at the University of Michigan has filed for an S-1
at the SEC, meaning that it soon will be launching an IPO.
Intelepeer maps
the IP address world to the dial-up home space and provides incremental phone
service to companies that want to participate in verticals in that space.
Excessive risk-taking has been the whipping boy for the financial meltdown over the last 3 years. On the surface I get it--executives at many financial institutions took on irresponsible amounts of leverage and got burned. However, something about this concept of these people being excessive risk-takers never made sense to me.
