"IPOs: Still a Viable Exit?" Orange Coast Venture Group breakfast and networking meeting. Back when the NASDAQ topped 5,000, an initial public offering (IPO) was the liquidity event of choice for every self-respecting entrepreneur and their VC funding partners. But with today’s volatile capital markets, reduced valuations, increased regulatory burden and diminished brokerage research coverage, is an IPO still the best exit strategy? Featuring panelists Matt Pauley of Bear, Stearns & Co.; Allen Thygesen of The Carlyle Group; David Sheehan of Digirad and Daniel Shaeffer of Wasatch Advisors; moderated by Kevin Covert of Montgomery & Co. See http://www.ocvg.com |