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Is your SME Business IPO ready?

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There are significant benefits to becoming a listed company, including access to public market capital to fund growth, research and development, new product introductions, and acquisition opportunities. An initial public offering (IPO) can also have a significant impact on your company’s brand and ability to compete in the marketplace. However, ensuring you are actually ready to operate as public company is critical before making the leap. With regards to main board IPO the conventional wisdom says that growth companies get ready to go public when they reach a certain revenue threshold in annualized sales and has at least few years and quarters of profitability under their belts. This theory is based on the idea that a company must be large enough to both: (a) withstand competitive pressures and (b) earn a large enough market value to enable the company to sell enough stock to institutional buyers in its IPO, without suffering massive dilution in the process.   However, wi