But not so tightly that entrepreneurs start to dread the prospect of a public listing.
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Mr. Loeb is pushing to spin off 15% to 20% of the company's entertainment assets into a public listing.
Unlike other start-ups that seek public listing, Zynga is already a profitable company.
That experience would certainly prove useful were Mimecast to seek a public listing.
Its public listing last August was a bit like the heady dotcom days.
And when the Borsa Italiana eventually gets a public listing, shareholders might force the exchange's hand, as Mr Capuano concedes.
In at least one case, Tata Consultancy Services, the public listing came too recently to show a track record for this year.
State-owned firms are trying to gain share online, with ventures by CCTV, public listing of the new media arms of state media firms etc.
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The public listing of Glencore is creating six new billionaires, according to my colleague Chris Helman, who delved deep into the offering prospectus.
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Now the CEO and chairman of Proteus Capital, he does "reverse takeovers, " offering U.S.-based shell companies to Chinese firms seeking an expedited public listing on American exchanges.
An iconoclast who goes where few rivals dare to tread, who shuns a public listing and stays focused on building his company according to his own long-term vision.
Faced with such obligations, most firms seek a public listing.
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While several of these banks are seeking a public listing, it will be hard to convince overseas investors, whether institutional or strategic, to buy more than minority stakes until the government injects more money and the banks improve their management.
There was no public phone listing for the home, which was being searched by dozens of police officers and sheriff's deputies.
They were merely reporting a public Amazon listing, and now claim to be bullied for refusing to deny the existence of what they found.
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At that point, companies typically conclude that they might as well go public, listing their shares on an exchange and cashing in if the offering succeeds.
Messages to the sheriff's office and a jail spokesman went unanswered, and there was no public phone listing for the home, which was being searched by dozens of police officers and sheriff's deputies.
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The company has chosen not to disclose its ownership structure, however, and has thus far steered clear of listing on public exchanges enabling it to maintain that posture.
Another director of BGC, Andrew Teo, who has sat in on the interview, chips in to say that a public float and stock exchange listing is possible.
Other pins included a listing of her public speaking engagements, links to news articles in which she'd appeared, her blog and even an article on how to build a resume on Pinterest.
The proposed transaction would provide Bumi and Berau with a backdoor London listing without the need for a formal public offering.
When the company went public, it issued a detailed 240-page prospectus listing the number of shares owned in 21 stocks, most of which were U.S. firms like News Corp.
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Ma is exploring a Hong Kong listing, but his main focus appears to be going public on Nasdaq.
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Public notices by the Beijing Municipal Construction Committee are up around the neighborhood, listing which addresses face relocation.
Two years after the Obama Administration created Challenge.gov, the first online listing of incentive prizes offered or supported by Federal agencies, the innovative site has hit an impressive milestone: its 200th listing of a challenge in search of a solution by the American public.
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