And that usually gives one even greater comfort that the initial offering will be boffo.
Its stock is up 14% from first-day close after an initial offering in May.
With proceeds from its initial offering, DryShips bought six ships that had recently been picked up by Kandylidis.
In 2007, as ChinaCache began to plan an initial offering, its good fortune hit a snag.
The promise of the networking business fueled hopes for Marvell's initial offering in early 2000.
While they have partially recovered, shares are still down approximately 38% from the initial offering price.
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Its stock price, despite some hops and dips, has mostly hovered around its initial offering price.
Anderson and Johnston say they expect an initial offering to be made available in four or five months.
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Venrock never sells stock in an initial offering, instead passing on the holdings to limited partners a year or so afterward.
Zamani, 34, screws up his face-perhaps remembering his misadventures after the last time he went through an initial offering.
Overall, we're really impressed with Snapstick's initial offering and we're glad we finally got to see the device in action.
We spent some time using Internet Explorer, reorganizing and resizing tiles and the 1.5GHz fares well with the OS' initial offering.
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UA's initial offering last November scored the hottest one-day run-up by a U.S. company in five years, according to Thomson Financial.
With fits and starts, the Facebook stock will rise over the next three years, and climb above the initial offering price.
ServiceSource, which completed its initial offering just over one month ago, had an impressive first-ever quarter as a public company.
Like all inside investors, they can't distribute or trade shares until the lockup period expires, usually six months after an initial offering.
Unfortunately, this being an initial offering, the fees have not been disclosed.
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In the three-and-a-half years from its initial offering until the completion of the merger in October 2005, GME's share price rose about 62%.
The much-touted 1-800-flowers.com wilted below its initial offering price in its first day of trading, and is now priced 36% below the offering.
The board hired an outside chief executive, James McNulty, who had investment banking experience and navigated the Merc through its demutualization and initial offering.
BankRate, which operates a collection of financial information Web sites, expects to return to the public market with an initial offering of 20 million shares.
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The initial offering will be the STYLISTIC S01, a smartphone designed especially for senior users, and will be available through Orange in France in June 2013.
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Possibly the sensibilities of Chinese investors had been hardened by revelations contained in the prospectus of an earlier Chinese initial offering, that of China Construction Bank.
He likes certain Internet startups like LinkedIn--Alger participated in the initial offering but quickly sold out--because they don't burn cash as quickly as fast-growing traditional manufacturing firms.
To please tech executives, who frequently sold their personal shares after the initial offering, the lawyers say, and thus reap higher fees from other companies itching to go public.
Both Gates and Davis deny any imminent plans for an initial offering, but in September Corbis raided newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to get Susan McDonald as chief financial officer.
The problem with an initial offering is that it would have to be accompanied by a statement of intent on future sales, reducing the government's role in the business still further.
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Saylor didn't sell any stock in MicroStrategy's initial offering.
While details of his potential compensation package have yet to be discussed, people briefed on the talks said that he would receive a cash salary as well as shares ahead of the initial offering.
According to Steel's rendition of the story, he was summoned into a meeting with Banatao, along with other vice presidents, to ask for unfiltered feedback about the company on the eve of the initial offering.
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