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Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy

Up and Running

For smaller companies that have already begun expanding—like restaurants that have franchised—an IPO may be a good way for the owner to recoup money spent, though it is worth noting that he or she may not be allowed to sell stock until the lock-up period has passed. Are there any ways you can make it appealing?

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Looking Ahead, Predictions For 2019

Haystack

That’s still OK given the IPO is more of a financing event than anything else, right? If things hold up through lock-up periods, waves of cash will wash up in northern California. How will they price Lyft (operating just in the U.S.) I am expecting to see this happen as soon as mid/late January.