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...agencies know, there are plenty of other opportunists who'd be happy to take their place. In these heady days of prosperity and a ballooning stock market, measured, critical financial reasoning strikes some people as cynical and potentially disastrous. (He who hesitates is lost - and loses out on that IPO.) That pervasive air of recklessness, combined with the infinite information available to investors, renders the Internet spectacularly ripe ground for speculation and securities fraud. And while the SEC is getting better at tracking down cyber-criminals (this case was wrapped up in less than a month), charlatans will probably have...
...global superpower that can't seem to upgrade its image; the other was considered a upscale comer in the same market, but couldn't seem to take off. So on Wednesday McDonald's ate up Boston Chicken, Inc., the white-hot IPO of 1995 that turned out to be one of the all-time turkeys (and a couple of years ago changed the name of its outlets to Boston Market). The hope is that the world's largest restaurant chain can corner the high end of the fast-food market, while allowing the upstart to benefit from a global marketing...
...billion Amount UPS raised in its IPO last week, largest in history...
YOUR UPS PERSON Men in Brown are Internet hipsters. UPS launches killer IPO, thanks to e-commerce deliveries...
...haul. A smart, enterprising, Harvard-educated Internet startup founder like yourself has a bright future. What is your exit strategy? A) Corporate buy-out. Earn a six-figure salary as CEO, hire a manager, dump your equity and spend the rest of your days playing Microsoft Golf 2000; B) IPO. Drum up hype, watch your stock price sky rocket, dump your equity and move to Vegas; C) Consolidate ownership. Convince your partners that the company is on the fast track to success, confess you are not the most qualified leader, sell your equity (for a reasonable price that includes "future...