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Twitter and its IPO must have been one of the topics most written about last week. For the uninitiated, Twitter tweeted, of course, last Friday that it has confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. Based on the media frenzy that ensued, one could have assumed that it was about the most anticipated debut since, let's say Facebook. A lot was made of the fact that it submitted its filings "in secrecy."
Let me tell you, though, that it's just been utilizing one of the tools Title I of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act gives to qualifying companies to make the IPO process a bit easier. The relief is available only to "emerging growth companies (EGCs)," which are businesses that have less than $1 billion in revenues. That's of course a formidable threshold, and most of the post-Title I IPOs qualified as EGCs. Whether Twitter is an emerging business or not was the subject of much debate, but the threshold is what it is.
The purpose of the JOBS Act is to spur corporate and economic growth after the financial crisis, and the Chinese menu of relief tools that the Act provides is designed to exactly do that. A company can choose none, some or all of the accommodations offered by the Act. If it selects to do so, it must disclose it in its prospectus. Most companies who took the leap and filed an S-1 took advantage of at least some of the accommodations provided by Title I.
Confidential Submission
Under the JOBS Act, EGCs may submit their S-1 Registration Statements with the SEC confidentially, so only the SEC can see and comment on it until it's final. Companies then must make their public filing 21 days before they launch the "roadshow," which is when they shop the IPO to investors and price the deal.
Twitter was among the many companies to use the JOBS Act to file confidentially. There are many reasons why companies may keep the initial stage of the process confidential: they may want to retain the option to abandon the plan, avoid public scrutiny of changing disclosure based on SEC comments, keep distraction of management in the wake of the initial filing to a minimum, and keep their IP, trade secrets and sensitive information under wraps until the entire project becomes more definitive.
Of course, the fact that Twitter tweeted about the launch defeated to some extent the purpose of a confidential submission, but I am sure Twitter and the best and the brightest it surrounded itself with had great reasons for it and it's moot to speculate. On a side note, though, I was personally (lawyerly) pleased that they squeezed the disclaimer in the tweet and it still made the 140.
Testing the Waters
Title I also allows EGCs and their underwriters to engage in oral or written communications with qualified institutional buyers and other institutional accredited investors before and after the filing of the S-1 to assess investor interest. On its face, this relief could ease the main concern of the management team that is already stressed to the max by the entire process, namely that there is no appetite for it/its story/the industry etc in the market. It appears though that the practical application of this provision is still evolving and the jury of its broad acceptance is still out. This may be explained by the fact that the antifraud provisions still apply to all of the communications, which becomes a concern if the disclosure in the S-1 changes significantly in the registration process. Also, the SEC has been scrutinizing all written communications under these rules.
Scaled Financial Disclosure
Under Title I, an EGC may provide two, rather than three years of audited financial statements and as few as two, as opposed to five, years of selected financial data. The MD&A also needs to discuss only the years for which it provides audited financial statements and subsequent interim periods. It's not surprising that under the new regime many of the companies who IPO'd under Title I of the JOBS Act provided financial data for the longer period anyhow. Market forces may have dictated this — the success of an IPO is as much about reliability and discipline as about good timing.
Executive Compensation Disclosure
EGCs may use streamlined executive compensation disclosure. It appears that more than two thirds of EGCs that filed under the JOBS Act took advantage of this relief. In general, companies did not include a compensation discussion and analysis.
Internal Controls Audit
EGCs may phase in compliance with Section 404(b) of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or reserve the right to do so in the future. Section 404(b) under SOX required an audit of the issuer's internal controls over financial reporting by the company's auditor. This relief was a popular one which most EGCs relied on.
Extended Phase-In for New GAAP
Under Title I, EGCs may also use an extended phase-in for new accounting standards. Very few companies made use of this accommodation. It goes to my earlier comment about financial disclosure. One would be ill-advised to use the IPO process and early phase of being public as a trial period. The market expects a business to be ready when it takes the big step.
I am inspired by the spirit of the JOBS Act, and Title I is no exception. It makes the process more streamlined, less distracting and intimidating, and maybe even quicker. The jury is still out whether it has encouraged more companies thinking about an IPO to actually do it. I doubt it. An IPO is such a huge step in a company's life that is driven by macro, not micro-factors. If history is any indication, bubbles formed and burst under the old rules, and if you ask me it's the current market that drives the surge of IPOs we are experiencing. But you betcha it has already saved companies tons of resources. And that makes it already worth it, if you ask me.
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Hi, everyone.
Well…after a year doing PPC and 7 months with PPC Classroom, l feel that l should make an honest post on whether or not it really works or still works?
For the sake of classification l will use 3 terms, which follows.
• The 1% of people that have a natural knack for PPC and can make substantial amounts while the majority scratch their heads trying to make anything.
• The percent that get lucky and finds something quickly.
• And the percent, "that is the majority" that see's these success posts on the forums and wonder what is wrong with them, and start thinking after 6 months or more have passed that maybe they are cursed, etc because other people seem to be getting somewhere with this?
But it is only a small percentage of people that are posting that gives you an unnatural expectation.
I could rattle on about this, but you probably get the idea.
If PPC worked for everyone then PPC Classrooms forums for example would have 10′s of thousands of people saying that they are making money from it; It has a reasonable number, (in the hundreds).
So…in my honest opinion is it worth joining a club like PPCC or doing it on your own, well yes and no?
• If you are hard up financially, and like to gamble, then yes, (but l wouldn't recommend it).
• If you are very lucky in financial things then the answer would probably be yes again.
• And if you have $1000 to $2000 sitting somewhere and want to have a fair to good chance of making $100 dollars profit and more eventually a day then l would recommend it, (and of course you need to seek an unbiased PPC expert for further info, this is just my best recommendation on my past results).
But only of you are nuts about PPC there are far cheaper ways of making a living online, (but l will get to that later).
Just to give you a rundown on PPC Classroom, l after 5 months of getting nowhere with my own site, joined.
Then to make a long story short l ran through about 10 campaigns over several months and found virtually nothing that was viable.
The first 3 where testing out my 3 e-books that l had wrote with pricing, then l tried affiliated products, but with the exception of maybe two, no success, (one that produced some results was in a diminishing market, not the type of project you want to put serious resources into).
I also found something that someone on their forums said converted well, and after several attempts and hundreds of dollars, l started realizing that l would need $1000 or more to really bring it, (hopefully) up to $100 dollars a day.
But as stated before there are better, cheaper ways!
PPC Classroom has some excellent videos and training, but it also has some Gurus that are running their own training courses. Nothing wrong with that, l hear you say, but unfortunately some of their ideas don't seem to work that well.
They have some gold nuggets here and there, but if you are joining to immediately get the million dollar gold bar, forget it!
PPCC's training methods, used to work well, but now unless you have serious money, it is getting too expensive with straight PPC. Obviously if you applied their techniques to Facebook, then once you have gotten past their rules, you would probably do well, and mobile phone adverting, when it matures a bit more.
So…unless you go into these areas on PPC, then without serious capital, it is best to consider other options.
I can't go into the details of how their system works because l may get into trouble, even though l am no longer a member.
And l am presently working on lists, after about a year with PPC.
Maybe building a list is just another scam-my thing that won't work, but l have had a few subscribers so far, and expect to get substantially more soon.
So…it very well could be something viable, and best of all at least so far, it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to do!
Nice for a change!
Building a list has many similarities with building your sites, give people plenty of free stuff, and they will buy more often than usual.
And to wrap up this thread, carefully consider your site niche, my toy-and-game site hasn't gotten any new subscribers, yet, even after giving away 15 e-books, (2 l wrote) and l haven't made a recent sale, even though l have 24 e-books, etc and ran a survey to see which ones people would buy the most, etc).
When l make my site 3 times bigger then it could turn the corner……
I am also running a internet marketing squeeze page and have posted a link onto several forums, with 5 subscribers so far.
Big difference!
Obviously PPC with internet marketing would cost a couple of dollars per click, but creating a name list is different and cheaper.
So to wrap up, for heaps of great tips and tricks to use with online marketing, l would give PPC Classroom the thumbs up, but for straight PPC with Adwords or MSN, etc unless you are lucky or have a few thousand on standby, l would keep building your site if you think that it has commercial potential or work on creating a list on the side to make sure that if your site takes a long time to mature, you have a backup source of income to fall back on.
So l have hopefully given you some useful info, to think about.
And Ben Brooks is a great source of free info, regarding building a list and keeping in line with SBI's philosophy
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The Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014 will feature teams from all five continental federations including teams from Africa, North and South America, Asia, Europe and the Oceania. Here is a full round up of the teams you can expect to see at the upcoming men's and women's event that will take place in just five days! It will be 76 matches, 14 competition days and lots and lots of hockey action!
Africa has dual representation with both South Africa men and women as the sole teams from the continent. Both teams qualified as continental champions, and the men come into the tournament ranked 12th, while the women are ranked one place higher in 11th. A welcomed returning member of the men's squad is the drag-flick specialist Justin Reid-Ross.
The Americas, both north and south, are represented in The Hague. The USA women's team earned their place through the World League Semi-Final, while Argentina are the reigning champions. Argentina's men's team qualified as continental champions of Pan America. With the talents of Luciana Aymar and the supporting cast of world-class talent, there is little doubt that Las Leonas are among the favourites to win the women's event.
Asia has good representation with five nations playing in the two competitions. Korea have a men's and a women's team in contention. Korea men, ranked 7th, qualified as continental champions, while the women, against the odds, lost out to Japan in the Asia Cup but secured their place when they finished third in the Hockey World League Semi Final.
With a world ranking of 13, Malaysia are the lowest ranked team in the men's competition and they appear courtesy of a fifth-place at the Hockey World League Semi-Finals. Finishing in sixth place in that same tournament was India and the 8th-ranked team will be hoping that this edition of the World Cup will provide the springboard they need to become a major force in world hockey once more. Japan became continental champions of Asia in 2013 when they beat the higher-ranked Korea team. The Cherry Blossoms are ranked 9th in the world, but have a propensity to surprise higher-ranked rivals. The fifth nation representing Asia is the China women's team. The team has a world ranking of seven and come into the tournament courtesy of a fourth place in the Hockey World League Semi-Final.
Europe has the highest number of representation, including the top-ranked women's team, The Netherlands, and the 2nd to 5th ranked men's teams – namely Germany, Netherlands, England and Belgium.
The Netherlands teams both qualified as hosts, and both teams will be disappointed with anything less than a spot in the finals. Germany is a nation whose teams will always perform on the big stage. For this edition, both the men and the women qualified as continental champions of Europe.
England are another nation with medal hopes for both genders, the women qualified when they finished second at the Investec World League Semi-Final, while the men came third in the equivalent event. Belgium men caused ripples when they beat Australia to win the Hockey World League Semi-Final to qualify, while the Red Panthers, qualified by virtue of sixth place in the Hockey World League Semi-Final. The final European nation is Spain men. Ranked 10th, Spain is a team packed with quality but short on international experience.
The fifth continent contains two nations who both feel they have genuine medal prospects. Australia men come into the competition as world number 1 and reigning champions. They qualified as the continental champions of Oceania and the added incentive to do well is coach Ric Charlesworth's imminent retirement. The women's team is currently ranked fourth in the world, they also qualified as the continental champions and they will be looking for their first World Cup success since 1998.
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- LAST MEETING: Cornerstone Christian won, 59-22, last year
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- LAST MEETING: Webb won, 36-29, last year
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- RECORDS: Cal Lutheran 2-1; Joshua Springs 2-1
- LAST MEETING: Cal Lutheran won, 40-25, in a first-round, Eight Man Large Schools playoff game last year.
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Former Colts coach: I wouldn't have taken gay player Michael Sam 13
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19th July 2014
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3:24 PM — Football chants dubbed homophobic by some were widely reported at this summer's World Cup, but similar chants have been heard in the UK for decades without attracting much attention.
England footballer hopes becoming a gay parent will send a positive message
2:31 PM — England footballer Casey Stoney and her partner Megan Harris have announced that they are expecting twins, and say they hope being gay parents in the public eye will send a positive message.
Hollyoaks actor: I can understand why gay footballers don't want to come out
2:08 PM — Out Hollyoaks actor Kieron Richardson has said he can understand why gay footballers might be reluctant to come out, after he received homophobic abuse on Twitter when he was mistaken for an athlete of the same name.
Watch: Michael Sam accepts Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPYs
12:25 PM — The NFL's first openly-gay player, Michael Sam, was met with two standing ovations as he accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on Wednesday night.